How to format your references using the Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research. 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

Standfuss, J. (2015). Structural biology. Viral chemokine mimicry. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6226), 1071–1072.

A journal article with 2 authors

Foster, G. L., & Vance, D. (2006). Negligible glacial-interglacial variation in continental chemical weathering rates. Nature, 444(7121), 918–921.

A journal article with 3 authors

Insel, T. R., Landis, S. C., & Collins, F. S. (2013). Research priorities. The NIH BRAIN Initiative. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6133), 687–688.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Alper, H., Moxley, J., Nevoigt, E., Fink, G. R., & Stephanopoulos, G. (2006). Engineering yeast transcription machinery for improved ethanol tolerance and production. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5805), 1565–1568.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Çayirci, E., & Rong, C. (2009). Security in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Grollmann, P., & Rauner, F. (Eds.). (2007). International Perspectives on Teachers and Lecturers in Technical and Vocational Education (Vol. 7). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Fairman, D., Chigas, D., McClintock, E., & Drager, N. (2012). Coalition-Building and Process Strategies. In D. Chigas, E. McClintock, & N. Drager (Eds.), Negotiating Public Health in a Globalized World: Global Health Diplomacy in Action (pp. 63–79). 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 Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, August 29). Groundbreaking Test For Parkinson’s Disease Could Lead To Early Detection. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2010). Aviation Safety: Certification and Approval Processes Are Generally Viewed as Working Well, but Better Evaluative Information Needed to Improve Efficiency (No. GAO-11-14). 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

Tetley, J. (2009). An investigation of self-authorship, hope, and meaning in life among second-year college students (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Williams, J. (2016, December 21). A Comedian’s Embroidered Life. New York Times, p. C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Standfuss 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Foster and Vance 2006; Standfuss 2015).

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

Two authors: (Foster and Vance 2006)
Three or more authors: (Alper et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research
ISSN (print)	0970-7794
ISSN (online)	2363-9962
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