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

Coles, P. (2005). The state of the Universe. Nature, 433(7023), 248–256.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schulz, H. N., & Schulz, H. D. (2005). Large sulfur bacteria and the formation of phosphorite. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5708), 416–418.

A journal article with 3 authors

Montzka, S. A., Dlugokencky, E. J., & Butler, J. H. (2011). Non-CO2 greenhouse gases and climate change. Nature, 476(7358), 43–50.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ang, C. Y., Tan, S. Y., Lu, Y., Bai, L., Li, M., Li, P., … Zhao, Y. (2014). “Turn-on” fluorescence probe integrated polymer nanoparticles for sensing biological thiol molecules. Scientific reports, 4, 7057.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hansen, S., Pedersen-Bjergaard, S., & Rasmussen, K. (2011). Introduction to Pharmaceutical Chemical Analysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gordon, I. J., & Prins, H. H. T. (Eds.). (2008). The Ecology of Browsing and Grazing (Vol. 195). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cremona, J. E., & Aranés, M. T. (2014). Congruence Subgroups, Cusps and Manin Symbols over Number Fields. In G. Böckle & G. Wiese (Eds.), Computations with Modular Forms: Proceedings of a Summer School and Conference, Heidelberg, August/September 2011 (pp. 109–127). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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. (2015, July 1). Boldly Going Into Space for 1,000 Days Presents a Series of Health Risks. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/boldly-going-space-1000-days-presents-series-health-risks/

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. (1992). Cleanup Technology: Better Management for DOE’s Technology Development Program (No. RCED-92-145). 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

Chatterji, S. (2016). A novel agent-based dynamic load balancing model for cloud networks (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

Crow, K. (2002, September 22). Some Want a Cultural Hub; Others See a Center on Steroids. New York Times, p. 147.

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