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

Read, P. (2013). Planetary science: plumbing the depths of Uranus and Neptune. Nature, 497(7449), 323–324.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hashmi, A., & Hong, J. (2014). Metal free half metallicity in 2D system: structural and magnetic properties of g-C4N3 on BN. Scientific reports, 4, 4374.

A journal article with 3 authors

Irigoien, X., Huisman, J., & Harris, R. P. (2004). Global biodiversity patterns of marine phytoplankton and zooplankton. Nature, 429(6994), 863–867.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Matsubayashi, Y., Ogawa, M., Morita, A., & Sakagami, Y. (2002). An LRR receptor kinase involved in perception of a peptide plant hormone, phytosulfokine. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5572), 1470–1472.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chaudhry, A., Coetsee, D., Bakker, E., Varughese, S., McIlwaine, S., Fuller, C., … Balasubramanian, T. V. (2014). 2015 Interpretation and Application of International Financial Reporting Standards. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gleizes, M.-P., Omicini, A., & Zambonelli, F. (Eds.). (2005). Engineering Societies in the Agents World V: 5th International Workshop, ESAW 2004, Toulouse, France, October 20-22, 2004. Revised Selected and Invited Papers (Vol. 3451). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Abadi, M. (2009). Logic in Access Control (Tutorial Notes). In A. Aldini, G. Barthe, & R. Gorrieri (Eds.), Foundations of Security Analysis and Design V: FOSAD 2007/2008/2009 Tutorial Lectures (pp. 145–165). 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

Carpineti, A. (2015, October 8). Researchers Grow Mini-Kidneys In The Lab. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-grow-mini-kidneys-lab/

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. (2009). Telecommunications: Preliminary Observations about Consumer Satisfaction and Problems with Wireless Phone Service and FCC’s Efforts to Assist Consumers with Complaints (No. GAO-09-800T). 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

Elizalde, K. (2014). Relationship between Latino adolescents and their mental health well-being: A quantitative study (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, October 7). Embraceable Saris. New York Times, p. E9.

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