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

Rockman, M. V. (2008). Reverse engineering the genotype-phenotype map with natural genetic variation. Nature, 456(7223), 738–744.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yan, W.-B., & Fan, H. (2014). Single-photon quantum router with multiple output ports. Scientific reports, 4, 4820.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bhalla, U. S., Ram, P. T., & Iyengar, R. (2002). MAP kinase phosphatase as a locus of flexibility in a mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling network. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5583), 1018–1023.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Moreira-Leite, F. F., Sherwin, T., Kohl, L., & Gull, K. (2001). A trypanosome structure involved in transmitting cytoplasmic information during cell division. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5542), 610–612.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benslama, M., Batatia, H., & Messai, A. (2016). Transitions from Digital Communications to Quantum Communications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hipel, K. W., Fang, L., Cullmann, J., & Bristow, M. (Eds.). (2015). Conflict Resolution in Water Resources and Environmental Management. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Shukla, V., Upreti, D. K., & Bajpai, R. (2014). Lichen Diversity in Different Lichenogeographical Regions of India. In U. D.k. & R. Bajpai (Eds.), Lichens to Biomonitor the Environment (pp. 61–96). New Delhi: Springer India.

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

Luntz, S. (2017, February 28). Seawater Can Reach Right To The Edge Of The Earth’s Core. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/seawater-can-reach-right-to-the-edge-of-the-earths-core/. 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). Higher Education: Stronger Federal Oversight Needed to Enforce Ban on Incentive Payments to School Recruiters (No. GAO-11-10). 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

Holmstedt, C. (2013). Low voltage switched-current cell and its application (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

Bishop, G., & Pilon, M. (2012, May 4). A Community Recalls a Star Who Never Left. New York Times, p. B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rockman 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Rockman 2008; Yan and Fan 2014).

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

Two authors: (Yan and Fan 2014)
Three or more authors: (Moreira-Leite et al. 2001)

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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