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

Gewin, Virginia. 2004. “Mapping Opportunities.” Nature 427 (6972): 376–377.

A journal article with 2 authors

Farquhar, Graham D., and Michael L. Roderick. 2003. “Atmospheric Science. Pinatubo, Diffuse Light, and the Carbon Cycle.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5615): 1997–1998.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moles, Anna, Brigitte L. Kieffer, and Francesca R. D’Amato. 2004. “Deficit in Attachment Behavior in Mice Lacking the Mu-Opioid Receptor Gene.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 304 (5679): 1983–1986.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lee, Soo Jae, Yoshiyuki Matsuura, Sai Man Liu, and Murray Stewart. 2005. “Structural Basis for Nuclear Import Complex Dissociation by RanGTP.” Nature 435 (7042): 693–696.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Svrcek, William Y., Donald P. Mahoney, and Brent R. Young. 2007. A Real-Time Approach to Process Control. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lugmayr, Artur, ed. 2015. Enterprise Applications and Services in the Finance Industry: 7th International Workshop, FinanceCom 2014, Sydney, Australia, December 2014, Revised Papers. 1st ed. 2015. Vol. 217. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Maricau, Elie, and Georges Gielen. 2013. “Background on IC Reliability Simulation.” In Analog IC Reliability in Nanometer CMOS, edited by Georges Gielen, 79–91. 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 Studies in the Philosophy of Science.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. “What Is This Bizarre Sea Creature Netted In China?” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/strange-sea-creature-has-been-spotted-chinese-fisherman/.

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. 1982. Recommendation Concerning Claim by Teacher for Backpay in DOD Overseas Dependents Schools. B-156439(JAB). 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

Pak, Charles H. 2015. “A Study of High-Performing at-Risk High School Students and Their Perceptions on Academic Success and Achievement.” Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Gabler, Ellen, Sheri Fink, and Vivian Yee. 2017. “A Preventable Descent Into Suffocating Chaos.” New York Times, September 23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin 2004; Farquhar and Roderick 2003).

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

Two authors: (Farquhar and Roderick 2003)
Three authors: (Moles, Kieffer, and D’Amato 2004)
4 or more authors: (Lee et al. 2005)

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