How to format your references using the Journal of Indian Philosophy citation style

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

Edelaar, P. (2013). Comment on “Evolutionary trade-offs, Pareto optimality, and the geometry of phenotype space.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6121), 757.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hofmann, H. A., & Stevenson, P. A. (2000). Flight restores fight in crickets. Nature, 403(6770), 613.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun, S., Ting, C.-T., & Wu, C.-I. (2004). The normal function of a speciation gene, Odysseus, and its hybrid sterility effect. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5680), 81–83.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bakker, A., Kirwan, C. B., Miller, M., & Stark, C. E. L. (2008). Pattern separation in the human hippocampal CA3 and dentate gyrus. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5870), 1640–1642.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goldstein, L. S. B., & Schneider, M. (2010). Stem Cells for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Chu, L.-Y. (2013). Smart Hydrogel Functional Materials. (R. Xie, X.-J. Ju, & W. Wang, Eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nagase, H., & Visse, R. (2011). Triple Helicase Activity and the Structural Basis of Collagenolysis. In W. C. Parks & R. P. Mecham (Eds.), Extracellular Matrix Degradation (pp. 95–122). 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 Journal of Indian Philosophy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, February 11). New Dog Robot Can Run and Climb Just Like The Real Thing. 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. (1997). Core Competencies for Financial System Analysts in the Federal Government (Exposure Draft) (No. CC–4). 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

Lizarraga, D. (2017). Effects of large inedible particles on the feeding performance of echinodem larvae (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

Billard, M. (2010, April 29). Dress Like a Benefactor. New York Times, p. E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Edelaar 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Edelaar 2013; Hofmann and Stevenson 2000).

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

Two authors: (Hofmann and Stevenson 2000)
Three or more authors: (Bakker et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Indian Philosophy
Abbreviation	J. Indian Philos.
ISSN (print)	0022-1791
ISSN (online)	1573-0395
Scope	Philosophy Cultural Studies