How to format your references using the Journal for General Philosophy of Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal for General 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

Faedi, F. (2015). Exoplanets: A glimpse of Earth’s fate. Nature, 526(7574), 515–516.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cao, X., & Südhof, T. C. (2001). A transcriptionally [correction of transcriptively] active complex of APP with Fe65 and histone acetyltransferase Tip60. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5527), 115–120.

A journal article with 3 authors

Veríssimo, A., Cochrane, M. A., & Souza, C., Jr. (2002). Ecology. National forests in the Amazon. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5586), 1478.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Prather, J. F., Peters, S., Nowicki, S., & Mooney, R. (2008). Precise auditory-vocal mirroring in neurons for learned vocal communication. Nature, 451(7176), 305–310.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Valière, J.-C. (2014). Acoustic Particle Velocity Measurements Using Lasers. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gleich, D. F., Komjáthy, J., & Litvak, N. (Eds.). (2015). Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph: 12th International Workshop, WAW 2015, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, December 10-11, 2015, Proceedings (1st ed. 2015., Vol. 9479). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Faggioni, L., Paolicchi, F., & Marinelli, M. (2010). Caratteristiche di base delle immagini TC. In F. Paolicchi & E. Neri (Eds.), Elementi di tomografia computerizzata (pp. 49–58). Milano: 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 Journal for General Philosophy of Science.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, October 11). Are We Sleeping Less Than We Used To? Here Are The Facts. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/are-we-sleeping-less-than-we-used-to-here-are-the-facts/. 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. (2013). Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Card Reader Pilot Results Are Unreliable; Security Benefits Should Be Reassessed (No. GAO-13-695T). 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

George, K. A. (2014). Housing adequacy and civic engagement in Los Angeles County (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Megalogenis, G. (2016, November 1). Powering Australia’s economic surge. New York Times, p. A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Faedi 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Cao and Südhof 2001; Faedi 2015).

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

Two authors: (Cao and Südhof 2001)
Three or more authors: (Prather et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal for General Philosophy of Science
Abbreviation	Z. Allg. Wissenschaftstheor.
ISSN (print)	0925-4560
ISSN (online)	1572-8587
Scope	History and Philosophy of Science Philosophy General Social Sciences