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

Rodriguez, I. (2014). Neurobiology: To care or not to care. Nature, 509(7500), 294–296.

A journal article with 2 authors

Estrada, E., & Vargas-Estrada, E. (2013). How peer pressure shapes consensus, leadership, and innovations in social groups. Scientific reports, 3, 2905.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carslaw, K. S., Harrison, R. G., & Kirkby, J. (2002). Cosmic rays, clouds, and climate. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5599), 1732–1737.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, X., Harris, R. E., Bayston, L. J., & Ashe, H. L. (2008). Type IV collagens regulate BMP signalling in Drosophila. Nature, 455(7209), 72–77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris, M. (2011). Concise Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Gómez, G. M., & Knorringa, P. (Eds.). (2016). Local Governance, Economic Development and Institutions. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Huebner, W. F., & Barfield, W. D. (2014). Equation of State (EOS). In W. D. Barfield (Ed.), Opacity (pp. 81–121). New York, NY: 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

Davis, J. (2016, July 22). Chinese Scientists Look Set To Start First Human Trails Of CRISPR Next Month. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/chinese-scientists-look-set-to-start-first-human-trails-of-crispr-next-month/. 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. (1997). Surface Transportation: The Department of Transportation Proposes Significant Changes to Its Automated Highway System Program (No. RCED-97-177R). 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

Sanford, R. (2015). Framing Human Trafficking: A Content Analysis of Newspaper Articles from 2012 and 2013 (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Cowen, T. (2015, November 6). Affordable, but Not That Egalitarian. New York Times, p. BU6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rodriguez 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Estrada and Vargas-Estrada 2013; Rodriguez 2014).

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

Two authors: (Estrada and Vargas-Estrada 2013)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2008)

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

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