How to format your references using the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. 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

Xu, X. (2013). Enhanced trion emission from colloidal quantum dots with photonic crystals by two-photon excitation. Scientific reports, 3, 3228.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weis, V. M., & Allemand, D. (2009). Physiology. What determines coral health? Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5931), 1153–1155.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sidi, S., Friedrich, R. W., & Nicolson, T. (2003). NompC TRP channel required for vertebrate sensory hair cell mechanotransduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5629), 96–99.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Santagiustina, M., Chin, S., Primerov, N., Ursini, L., & Thévenaz, L. (2013). All-optical signal processing using dynamic Brillouin gratings. Scientific reports, 3, 1594.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Balakrishnan, N., & Koutras, M. V. (2001). Runs and Scans with Applications: Balakrishnan/Runs. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Narasimhan, P., & Triantafillou, P. (Eds.). (2012). Middleware 2012: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 13th International Middleware Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada, December 3-7, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 7662). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cioranescu, D., Girault, V., & Rajagopal, K. R. (2016). Grade-Two Fluids: Some Theoretical Results. In V. Girault & K. R. Rajagopal (Eds.), Mechanics and Mathematics of Fluids of the Differential Type (pp. 179–310). 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 International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, November 7). Oldest European Genome Sequenced. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/oldest-european-genome-sequenced/. 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. (1992). Airport Development: Improvement Needed in Federal Planning (No. T-RCED-92-30). 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

Maafi, N. (2017). Assessment of Volatile Metabolites for In Situ Detection of Fungal Decay of Wood (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Billard, M. (2010, November 28). Check In /Check Out; MIAMI BEACH, FLA.: Soho Beach House. New York Times, p. TR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Xu 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Weis and Allemand 2009; Xu 2013).

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

Two authors: (Weis and Allemand 2009)
Three or more authors: (Santagiustina et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
Abbreviation	Int. J. Philos. Relig.
ISSN (print)	0020-7047
ISSN (online)	1572-8684
Scope	Philosophy