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

Fiset, S. (2010). Comment on “Differential sensitivity to human communication in dogs, wolves, and human infants.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5988), 142; author reply 142.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brown, J. W., & Braver, T. S. (2005). Learned predictions of error likelihood in the anterior cingulate cortex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5712), 1118–1121.

A journal article with 3 authors

Biswas, A. K., Atulasimha, J., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2014). An error-resilient non-volatile magneto-elastic universal logic gate with ultralow energy-delay product. Scientific reports, 4, 7553.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Throop, H. B., Bally, J., Esposito, L. W., & McCaughrean, M. J. (2001). Evidence for dust grain growth in young circumstellar disks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5522), 1686–1689.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chitty, J., & Raftery, A. (2013). Essentials of Tortoise Medicine and Surgery. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Sénac, P., Ott, M., & Seneviratne, A. (Eds.). (2012). Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services: 7th International ICST Conference, MobiQuitous 2010, Sydeny, Australia, December 6-9, 2010, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 73). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, K., Lee, W.-H., Yu, K.-S., Lee, J.-Y., Ahn, S., & Chung, J.-W. (2008). Recovery Schemes for Fast Fault Recovery on GMPLS Network. In O. Gervasi, B. Murgante, A. Laganà, D. Taniar, Y. Mun, & M. L. Gavrilova (Eds.), Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2008: International Conference, Perugia, Italy, June 30– July 3, 2008, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 43–55). 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 International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 27). What Does A Comet Smell Like? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosetta-discovers-comet-s-disgusting-odor/. 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. (1973). Additional Costs Incurred in Maintaining the National Industrial Equipment Reserve (NIER) (No. B-125187). 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

Tripamer, A. J. (2013). Teacher Perceptions of Teacher Evaluations in the Fort Zumwalt School District (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Schmidt, M. S. (2017, May 16). Trump Appealed to Comey to Halt Inquiry Into Aide. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fiset 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Brown and Braver 2005; Fiset 2010).

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

Two authors: (Brown and Braver 2005)
Three or more authors: (Throop et al. 2001)

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