How to format your references using the International Studies in the Philosophy of Science citation style

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

Jerolmack, Douglas J. 2013. “Planetary Science. Pebbles on Mars.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 340 (6136): 1055–1056.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yanega, Gregor M., and Margaret A. Rubega. 2004. “Feeding Mechanisms: Hummingbird Jaw Bends to Aid Insect Capture.” Nature 428 (6983): 615.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meng, Fanke, Kevin P. McGrath, and Amir H. Hoveyda. 2014. “Multifunctional Organoboron Compounds for Scalable Natural Product Synthesis.” Nature 513 (7518): 367–374.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Enders, Dieter, Matthias R. M. Hüttl, Christoph Grondal, and Gerhard Raabe. 2006. “Control of Four Stereocentres in a Triple Cascade Organocatalytic Reaction.” Nature 441 (7095): 861–863.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Naylor, Wayne, Diane Laverty, and Jane Mallett. 2008. The Royal Marsden Hospital Handbook of Wound Management in Cancer Care. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd.

An edited book

Lüttge, Ulrich, and Wolfram Beyschlag, eds. 2015. Progress in Botany: Vol. 76. Vol. 76. Progress in Botany, Genetics - Physiology - Systematics - Ecology. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, Zhongqiang, Dan Yu, Wen Xiong, Dong Wang, and Manghui Tu. 2006. “Aquatic Plants Diversity in Arid Zones of Northwest China: Patterns, Threats and Conservation.” In Marine, Freshwater, and Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation, edited by David L. Hawksworth and Alan T. Bull, 49–76. Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Studies in the Philosophy of Science.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. 2014. “Amazing Ads That Promote Science.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/clever-ads-promote-science/.

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. 1999. Passenger Facility Charges: Program Implementation and the Potential Effects of Proposed Changes. RCED-99-138. 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

Page, Jason A. 2009. “Contested Urban Space: Competing Discourses of Urban Development and Environmental Conservation in Playa Vista, California.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Grynbaum, Michael M., and Emily Steel. 2016. “After Ailes’s Departure, a Stony Silence at Fox.” New York Times, July 28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jerolmack 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Jerolmack 2013; Yanega and Rubega 2004).

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

Two authors: (Yanega and Rubega 2004)
Three authors: (Meng, McGrath, and Hoveyda 2014)
4 or more authors: (Enders et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Abbreviation	Int. Stud. Philos. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0269-8595
ISSN (online)	1469-9281
Scope	History and Philosophy of Science