How to format your references using the Journal of Philosophical Logic citation style

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

Schiermeier, Q. (2007). Swedish strategies. Nature, 449(7159), 254–255.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwab, M. E., & Buchli, A. D. (2012). Drug research: plug the real brain drain. Nature, 483(7389), 267–268.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zimov, S. A., Schuur, E. A. G., & Chapin, F. S., 3rd. (2006). Climate change. Permafrost and the global carbon budget. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5780), 1612–1613.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Shav-Tal, Y., Darzacq, X., Shenoy, S. M., Fusco, D., Janicki, S. M., Spector, D. L., & Singer, R. H. (2004). Dynamics of single mRNPs in nuclei of living cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5678), 1797–1800.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Higman, B. W. (2011). How Food Made History. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Henderson, B. A. (Ed.). (2016). Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery (1st ed. 2016.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ranathunga, S., Cranefield, S., & Purvis, M. (2012). Integrating Expectation Monitoring into BDI Agents. In L. Dennis, O. Boissier, & R. H. Bordini (Eds.), Programming Multi-Agent Systems: 9th International Workshop, ProMAS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 3, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 74–91). 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 Philosophical Logic.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, July 21). Transiting Exoplanet With Longest Year Discovered. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (1986). A Profile of Selected Firms Awarded Small Business Innovation Research Funds (No. RCED-86-113FS). 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

Malkus, N. (2012). Beneath the district averages: Intradistrict differences in teacher compensation expenditures (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Kelly, C. (2012, December 30). Personal Finance Advice, Taken to the Woodshed. New York Times, p. BU6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Philosophical Logic
Abbreviation	J. Philos. Logic
ISSN (print)	0022-3611
ISSN (online)	1573-0433
Scope	Philosophy