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

Blobel, G. (2013). Christian de Duve (1917-2013). Nature, 498(7454), 300.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grill, E., & Christmann, A. (2007). Botany. A plant receptor with a big family. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5819), 1676–1677.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vajda, V., Raine, J. I., & Hollis, C. J. (2001). Indication of global deforestation at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary by New Zealand fern spike. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5547), 1700–1702.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lecuit, M., Vandormael-Pournin, S., Lefort, J., Huerre, M., Gounon, P., Dupuy, C., et al. (2001). A transgenic model for listeriosis: role of internalin in crossing the intestinal barrier. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5522), 1722–1725.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnes, E. (2012). Atlas of Developmental Field Anomalies of the Human Skeleton. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Compagnone, D., Baldini, F., Di Natale, C., Betta, G., & Siciliano, P. (Eds.). (2015). Sensors: Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Sensors, Rome 19-21 February, 2014 (Vol. 319). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Schöll, E., Hövel, P., Flunkert, V., & Dahlem, M. A. (2010). Time-Delayed Feedback Control: From Simple Models to Lasers and Neural Systems. In F. M. Atay (Ed.), Complex Time-Delay Systems: Theory and Applications (pp. 85–150). 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, July 23). Boa Constrictors Don’t Actually Suffocate Their Prey To Death After All. 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. (2014). Public Transit: Federal and Transit Agencies Taking Steps to Build Transit Systems’ Resilience but Face Challenges (No. GAO-15-159). 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

Klepper, E. M. (2017). Andragogy and Workplace Relationships: A Mixed-Methods Study Exploring Employees’ Perceptions of Their Relationships with Their Supervisors (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Rueb, E. S. (2016, May 26). Before Fire Under Tracks in East Harlem, a Business Took Root. New York Times, p. A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blobel 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Blobel 2013; Grill and Christmann 2007).

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

Two authors: (Grill and Christmann 2007)
Three or more authors: (Lecuit et al. 2001)

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