How to format your references using the Journal of Social Philosophy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Social 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	Download the output style file
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

Edlin, Brian R. 2011. “Perspective: test and treat this silent killer.” Nature no. 7350474: S18-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rosenberg, Susan M and Hastings, PJ. 2003. “Microbiology and evolution. Modulating mutation rates in the wild.” Science (New York, N.Y.) no. 5624300: 1382–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kusky, TM; Li, JH and Tucker, RD. 2001. “The Archean Dongwanzi ophiolite complex, North China craton: 2.505-billion-year-old oceanic crust and mantle.” Science (New York, N.Y.) no. 5519292: 1142–5.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Alenghat, Theresa et al. 2008. “Nuclear receptor corepressor and histone deacetylase 3 govern circadian metabolic physiology.” Nature no. 7224456: 997–1000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mazar Madjar, Haim. 2016. Radio Spectrum Management. Chichester, UK: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Siddique, Rafat. 2011. Supplementary Cementing Materials, ed. Mohammad Iqbal Khan. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Fernández-Ceniceros, Julio et al. 2014. “Soft Computing Metamodels for the Failure Prediction of T-stub Bolted Connections.” In International Joint Conference SOCO’14-CISIS’14-ICEUTE’14: Bilbao, Spain, June 25th-27th, 2014, Proceedings Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ed. José Gaviria de la Puerta et al., 41–51. 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 Social Philosophy.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. These Fisherman Found Something Very Unexpected Lurking In A Cod’s Mouth. IFLScience, Retrieved October 30, 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. 1973. Improvements Needed in NASA’s Estimating and Reporting of Program Costs. 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

Graves, Keith A. 2012. “An Exploration of Organizational Commitment among Generation X Leaders.” Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Dynarski, Susan. 2015. “To Gain a College Student, Eliminate a Form.” 08/21/2015.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Social Philosophy
Abbreviation	J. Soc. Philos.
ISSN (print)	0047-2786
ISSN (online)	1467-9833
Scope	Philosophy