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

Ball, Philip. 2015. “Publishing: The Journal That Publishes No Papers.” Nature 526 (7571): 146.

A journal article with 2 authors

Owen-Hughes, Tom, and Michael Bruno. 2004. “Molecular Biology. Breaking the Silence.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 303 (5656): 324–325.

A journal article with 3 authors

Knapp, Sandra, Andrew Polaszek, and Mark Watson. 2007. “Spreading the Word.” Nature 446 (7133): 261–262.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Aillaud, Chrystelle, Christophe Bosc, Leticia Peris, Anouk Bosson, Pierre Heemeryck, Juliette Van Dijk, Julien Le Friec, et al. 2017. “Vasohibins/SVBP Are Tubulin Carboxypeptidases (TCPs) That Regulate Neuron Differentiation.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 358 (6369): 1448–1453.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Del Pico, Wayne J. 2014. Electrical Estimating Methods. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Andronikou, Savvas, Angus Alexander, Tracy Kilborn, Alastair J. W. Millar, and Alan Daneman, eds. 2010. ABC of Pediatric Surgical Imaging. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kharbat, Faten, Mohammed Odeh, and Larry Bull. 2008. “Knowledge Discovery from Medical Data: An Empirical Study with XCS.” In Learning Classifier Systems in Data Mining, edited by Larry Bull, Ester Bernadó-Mansilla, and John Holmes, 93–121. Studies in Computational Intelligence. 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 Studies in the Philosophy of Science.

Blog post

Taub, Ben. 2016. “Evidence Suggests Missing Students In Mexico Were Not Incinerated By A Drug Cartel.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/evidence-suggests-missing-students-in-mexico-were-not-incinerated-by-a-drug-cartel/.

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. 2012. Information Technology: Department of Labor Could Further Facilitate Modernization of States’ Unemployment Insurance Systems. GAO-12-957. 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

Shelton-Quinn, Anitra. 2009. “Increasing Positive Peer Reporting and on -Task Behavior Using a Peer Monitoring Interdependent Group Contingency Program with Public Posting.” Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State University.

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

Greenhouse, Linda. 2007. “‘Bad’ Legal Advice and the Death Penalty.” New York Times, November 6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ball 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ball 2015; Owen-Hughes and Bruno 2004).

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

Two authors: (Owen-Hughes and Bruno 2004)
Three authors: (Knapp, Polaszek, and Watson 2007)
4 or more authors: (Aillaud et al. 2017)

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