How to format your references using the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology citation style

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

Smil, V. (2000). Horse power. Nature, 405(6783), 125.

A journal article with 2 authors

Core, L. J., & Lis, J. T. (2008). Transcription regulation through promoter-proximal pausing of RNA polymerase II. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5871), 1791–1792.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brockmann, D., Hufnagel, L., & Geisel, T. (2006). The scaling laws of human travel. Nature, 439(7075), 462–465.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rambaut, A., Pybus, O. G., Nelson, M. I., Viboud, C., Taubenberger, J. K., & Holmes, E. C. (2008). The genomic and epidemiological dynamics of human influenza A virus. Nature, 453(7195), 615–619.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Arden, J. B., & Linford, L. (2008). Brain-Based Therapy with Adults. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Shi, Y.-Q., Kim, H. J., Pérez-González, F., & Echizen, I. (Eds.). (2016). Digital-Forensics and Watermarking: 14th International Workshop, IWDW 2015, Tokyo, Japan, October 7-10, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 9569). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Munoz, D., Bagnell, J. A., & Hebert, M. (2010). Stacked Hierarchical Labeling. In K. Daniilidis, P. Maragos, & N. Paragios (Eds.), Computer Vision – ECCV 2010: 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 5-11, 2010, Proceedings, Part VI (pp. 57–70). 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 Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017, March 16). Explosion At Mount Etna Nearly Kills BBC Film Crew. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/explosion-mount-etna-nearly-kills-bbc-film-crew/

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). Excluded Parties List System: Suspended and Debarred Businesses and Individuals Improperly Receive Federal Funds (GAO-09-174). 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

Snyder, Q. Z. (2010). From anarchy to confederacy: A theory of international politics [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Hyduk, J. (2017, January 1). A Year That Can Never Be Taken From Cleveland. New York Times, SP4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Smil, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Core & Lis, 2008; Smil, 2000).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Core & Lis, 2008)
Three authors: (Brockmann et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Rambaut et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Theor. Philos. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1068-8471
ISSN (online)	2151-3341
Scope	Philosophy General Psychology