How to format your references using the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 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

Morgan, J. A. (2002). Ecology. Looking beneath the surface. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5600), 1903–1904.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knohl, A., & Veldkamp, E. (2011). Global change: indirect feedbacks to rising CO2. Nature, 475(7355), 177–178.

A journal article with 3 authors

Williams-Guillén, K., Perfecto, I., & Vandermeer, J. (2008). Bats limit insects in a neotropical agroforestry system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5872), 70.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Shi, Y., Sawada, J.-I., Sui, G., Affar, E. B., Whetstine, J. R., Lan, F., et al. (2003). Coordinated histone modifications mediated by a CtBP co-repressor complex. Nature, 422(6933), 735–738.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Provost, J. J., Colabroy, K. L., Kelly, B. S., & Wallert, M. A. (2016). The Science of Cooking. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lantada, A. D. (Ed.). (2013). Handbook on Advanced Design and Manufacturing Technologies for Biomedical Devices. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Ananchuen, N., Ananchuen, W., & Plummer, M. D. (2011). Domination in Graphs. In M. Dehmer (Ed.), Structural Analysis of Complex Networks (pp. 73–104). Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

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 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, October 21). Global Wine Production Is Collapsing Thanks To Climate Change. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/global-wine-production-collapsing-thanks-climate-change/. 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. (2006). Space Acquisitions: DOD Needs to Take More Action to Address Unrealistic Initial Cost Estimates of Space Systems (No. GAO-07-96). 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

Works, R. F. (2016). Econometric modeling of exchange rate determinants by market classification: An empirical analysis of Japan and South Korea using the sticky-price monetary theory (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Oestreich, J. R. (2016, September 29). Back After Injuries, a Baritone Is Strong but a Production Less So. New York Times, p. C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Morgan 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Knohl and Veldkamp 2011; Morgan 2002).

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

Two authors: (Knohl and Veldkamp 2011)
Three or more authors: (Shi et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Abbreviation	Hist. Philos. Life Sci.
ISSN (print)	0391-9714
ISSN (online)	1742-6316
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) History History and Philosophy of Science