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

Hennecke, U. (2013). Chemistry. Revealing the positive side of fluorine. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6128), 41–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Franchi, L., & Núñez, G. (2012). Immunology. Orchestrating inflammasomes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6100), 1299–1300.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moyen, J.-F., Stevens, G., & Kisters, A. (2006). Record of mid-Archaean subduction from metamorphism in the Barberton terrain, South Africa. Nature, 442(7102), 559–562.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zeilinger, A., Weihs, G., Jennewein, T., & Aspelmeyer, M. (2005). Happy centenary, photon. Nature, 433(7023), 230–238.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

MacIsaac, B., & Langton, R. (2011). Gas Turbine Propulsion Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Geertman, S., & Stillwell, J. (Eds.). (2009). Planning Support Systems Best Practice and New Methods (Vol. 95). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Molina, G. A. (2008). Huemul – A Smalltalk Implementation. In R. Hirschfeld & K. Rose (Eds.), Self-Sustaining Systems: First Workshop, S3 2008 Potsdam, Germany, May 15-16, 2008 Revised Selected Papers (pp. 54–73). 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

Andrews, R. (2016, June 30). Check Out These Volcanologists Brewing Vast Batches Of Homemade Lava. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/check-out-these-volcanologists-brewing-vast-batches-of-homemade-lava/. 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. (2016). School Choice: Private School Choice Programs Are Growing and Can Complicate Providing Certain Federally Funded Services to Eligible Students (No. GAO-16-712). 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

Barry, E. (2012, May 13). A Dozen Writers Put Down Their Pens to Prove the Might of a March. New York Times, p. A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hennecke 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Franchi and Núñez 2012; Hennecke 2013).

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

Two authors: (Franchi and Núñez 2012)
Three or more authors: (Zeilinger et al. 2005)

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