How to format your references using the European Journal for Philosophy of Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal for Philosophy of Science. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Donnelly, P. (2011). Genome-sequencing anniversary. Making sense of the data. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6020), 1024–1025.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kondo, S., & Miura, T. (2010). Reaction-diffusion model as a framework for understanding biological pattern formation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5999), 1616–1620.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nestle, F. O., Speidel, H., & Speidel, M. O. (2002). Metallurgy: high nickel release from 1- and 2-euro coins. Nature, 419(6903), 132.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Park, S., Lee, D. H., Xu, J., Kim, B., Hong, S. W., Jeong, U., et al. (2009). Macroscopic 10-terabit-per-square-inch arrays from block copolymers with lateral order. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5917), 1030–1033.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Mazar Madjar, H. (2016). Radio Spectrum Management. Chichester, UK: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Jøsang, A., & Carlsson, B. (Eds.). (2012). Secure IT Systems: 17th Nordic Conference, NordSec 2012, Karlskrona, Sweden, October 31 – November 2, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 7617). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Anellis, I. H. (2015). Peirce’s Role in the History of Logic: Lingua Universalis and Calculus Ratiocinator. In A. Koslow & A. Buchsbaum (Eds.), The Road to Universal Logic: Festschrift for the 50th Birthday of Jean-Yves Béziau Volume II (pp. 135–169). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for European Journal for Philosophy of Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 21). Is Nuclear Power Zero-Emission? No, But It Isn’t High-Emission Either. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/nuclear-power-zero-emission-no-it-isn-t-high-emission-either/. Accessed 30 October 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (2005). Mass Transit: Preliminary Views on Options for Additional Fiscal Oversight of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (No. GAO-05-922T). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Crump, S. (2015). The efficacy of an academic behavior assessment tool for the functional behavior assessment process (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Feeney, K. (2009, November 22). Where to Fill Up the Table. New York Times, p. NJ13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Donnelly 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Donnelly 2011; Kondo and Miura 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Kondo and Miura 2010)
Three or more authors: (Park et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Philos. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1879-4912
ISSN (online)	1879-4920
Scope	History and Philosophy of Science