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

Cepko, Constance. 2010. “Neuroscience. Seeing the light of day.” Science (New York, N.Y.) no. 5990329: 403–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhao, Zhouzhou and Arruda, Ellen M. 2014. “Materials science. An internal cure for damaged polymers.” Science (New York, N.Y.) no. 6184344: 591–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bonasio, Roberto; Tu, Shengjiang and Reinberg, Danny. 2010. “Molecular signals of epigenetic states.” Science (New York, N.Y.) no. 6004330: 612–6.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Thomas, GA et al. 2000. “Towards the clarity limit in optical fibre.” Nature no. 6775404: 262–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Di Stefano, Michael. 2005. Distributed Data Management for Grid Computing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hemert, Jano van and Cotta, Carlos eds. 2008. Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization: 8th European Conference, EvoCOP 2008, Naples, Italy, March 26-28, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

He, Wendy W and Bruley, Duane F. 2006. “Biomechanical Design Factor for Soft Gel Chromatography Columns to Separate Homologous, High Molecular Weight, Therapeutic Proteins.” In Oxygen Transport to Tissue XXVII Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ed. Giuseppe Cicco et al., 23–7. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2017. The Speed Of Gravity Might Help Us Confirm Dark Energy. IFLScience, Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-speed-of-gravity-might-help-us-confirm-dark-energy/.

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. 1978. Follow Up of Sanitary Conditions in Selected Food Industries. 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

Swenson, Mitchell D. 2012. “Second generation Latinos and the perceived barriers to college enrollment.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Luongo, Michael T. 2017. “Beyond Technology: Hotels Train Workers in Personal Touch.” 07/10/2017.

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