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

Magurran, A. E. (2009). Ecology. Threats to freshwater fish. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5945), 1215–1216.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lucht, M., & Rosskopf, D. (2008). Comment on “Genetically determined differences in learning from errors.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5886), 200; author reply 200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Koskinen, T. T., Aylward, A. D., & Miller, S. (2007). A stability limit for the atmospheres of giant extrasolar planets. Nature, 450(7171), 845–848.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Goedert, J., Lécuyer, C., Amiot, R., Arnaud-Godet, F., Wang, X., Cui, L., et al. (2018). Euryhaline ecology of early tetrapods revealed by stable isotopes. Nature, 558(7708), 68–72.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

P. Wen, E., Ellis, R., & S. Pujar, N. (2014). Vaccine Development and Manufacturing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Waymire, E. C., & Duan, J. (Eds.). (2005). Probability and Partial Differential Equations in Modern Applied Mathematics (Vol. 140). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nebel, B. (2012). Editorial. In E. Prassler, M. Zöllner, R. Bischoff, W. Burgard, R. Haschke, M. Hägele, et al. (Eds.), Towards Service Robots for Everyday Environments: Recent Advances in Designing Service Robots for Complex Tasks in Everyday Environments (pp. 45–47). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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. (2014, January 11). “Hypervelocity stars” escaping the Milky Way could represent entirely new class. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/“hypervelocity-stars”-escaping-milky-way-could-represent-entirely-new-class/. 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. (1999). Year 2000 Computing Challenge: FBI Needs to Complete Business Continuity Plans (No. AIMD-00-11). 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

Gonzaga Reed, R. R. (2017). The Impact of a Community-Based College Access Program at a Midwestern Institution (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Schwartz, J. (2016, November 16). Climate Deal Called Too Weak to Meet Goals. New York Times, p. A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Magurran 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Lucht and Rosskopf 2008; Magurran 2009).

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

Two authors: (Lucht and Rosskopf 2008)
Three or more authors: (Goedert et al. 2018)

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