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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Lea, D. W. (2014). Oceans. Not so permanent El Niño. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6179), 52–53.
A journal article with 2 authors
Martin, O. Y., & Hosken, D. J. (2003). The evolution of reproductive isolation through sexual conflict. Nature, 423(6943), 979–982.
A journal article with 3 authors
Kersten, S., Desvergne, B., & Wahli, W. (2000). Roles of PPARs in health and disease. Nature, 405(6785), 421–424.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Ahn, H. S., Kim, J. M., Park, C., Jang, J.-W., Lee, J. S., Kim, H., et al. (2013). A novel role of three dimensional graphene foam to prevent heater failure during boiling. Scientific reports, 3, 1960.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Stegmann, J. P. (2009). Strategic Value Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Beal, T. (2016). China, New Zealand, and the Complexities of Globalization: Asymmetry, Complementarity, and Competition. (Y. Kang, Ed.). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.
A chapter in an edited book
Forth, J., Petit, H., & Salibekyan, Z. (2016). Tenure, Skill Development, and Pay: The Role of Internal Labour Markets. In T. Amossé, A. Bryson, J. Forth, & H. Petit (Eds.), Comparative Workplace Employment Relations: An Analysis of Practice in Britain and France (pp. 105–140). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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
Luntz, S. (2015, May 12). Where Did All the Ammonites Go? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/where-did-all-ammonites-go/. 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. (1991). Digests of Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. II, No. 4 (No. 144050). 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
Coughenour, B. M. (2014). Photovoltaic concentrator optical system design: Solar energy engineering from physics to field (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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
Anderson, J. (2017, March 2). A Palestinian Hip-Hop Film. From Israel. New York Times, p. AR14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lea 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Lea 2014; Martin and Hosken 2003).

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

  • Two authors: (Martin and Hosken 2003)
  • Three or more authors: (Ahn et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Indian Philosophy
AbbreviationJ. Indian Philos.
ISSN (print)0022-1791
ISSN (online)1573-0395
ScopePhilosophy
Cultural Studies

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