How to format your references using the International Journal of Philosophy and Theology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Philosophy and Theology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Hede, Karyn. “Antibiotic Resistance: An Infectious Arms Race.” Nature 509, no. 7498 (May 1, 2014): S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gabaldón, Toni, and Martijn A. Huynen. “Reconstruction of the Proto-Mitochondrial Metabolism.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 301, no. 5633 (August 1, 2003): 609.

A journal article with 3 authors

He, Wanzhong, Pamela Cowin, and David L. Stokes. “Untangling Desmosomal Knots with Electron Tomography.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 302, no. 5642 (October 3, 2003): 109–13.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Han, Dongran, Xiaodong Qi, Cameron Myhrvold, Bei Wang, Mingjie Dai, Shuoxing Jiang, Maxwell Bates, et al. “Single-Stranded DNA and RNA Origami.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 358, no. 6369 (December 15, 2017).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walkenbach, John. Excel® 2010 Power Programming with VBA. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Ikeuchi, Katsushi, ed. Computer Vision: A Reference Guide. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Hart, Susan G. Emeigh. “Safety Pharmacology of Drugs for the Urinary Tract.” In Drug Discovery and Evaluation: Safety and Pharmacokinetic Assays, edited by H. Gerhard Vogel, Franz Jakob Hock, Jochen Maas, and Dieter Mayer, 95–140. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006.

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 of Philosophy and Theology.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. “How Space Alters Whiskey.” IFLScience. IFLScience, September 9, 2015.

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. “Studies of U.S. Universities’ Research Equipment Needs Inconclusive.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, April 3, 1984.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Martinez, Nelly M. “The Influence of Formal and Informal Support on the Quality of Life of Individuals with a Severe Mental Illness.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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

Hirsch, George A. “Building Their Sport Stride By Stride.” New York Times, October 29, 2013.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Philosophy and Theology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Philos. Theol.
ISSN (print)	2169-2327
ISSN (online)	2169-2335
Scope	Philosophy Religious studies