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

Wadman, M. (2015). Treatment: When less is more. Nature, 528(7582), S126-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Day, J., & Beamish, J. (2007). Low-temperature shear modulus changes in solid 4He and connection to supersolidity. Nature, 450(7171), 853–856.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kirichok, Y., Krapivinsky, G., & Clapham, D. E. (2004). The mitochondrial calcium uniporter is a highly selective ion channel. Nature, 427(6972), 360–364.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Waltereit, P., Brandt, O., Trampert, A., Grahn, H. T., Menniger, J., Ramsteiner, M., Reiche, M., & Ploog, K. H. (2000). Nitride semiconductors free of electrostatic fields for efficient white light-emitting diodes. Nature, 406(6798), 865–868.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carroll, N. (2013). Minerva’s Night Out. A John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Dale, C., & Anderson, T. (Eds.). (2010). Making Systems Safer: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, Bristol, UK, 9-11th February 2010. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Athique, A. (2016). Post-industrial Development and the New Leisure Economy. In S. Venkateswar & S. Bandyopadhyay (Eds.), Globalisation and the Challenges of Development in Contemporary India (pp. 61–76). 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

Hale, T. (2016, July 7). A Step By Step Guide On How To Remove Your Online Presence. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1987). Education Information: Changes in Funds and Priorities Have Affected Production and Quality (PEMD-88-4). 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

Mikhailik, Y. (2013). Longing Limned [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Novick, S. M. (2015, March 29). When the Brew Is as Crucial as the Bean. New York Times, LI8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wadman, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Day & Beamish, 2007; Wadman, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Day & Beamish, 2007)
Three authors: (Kirichok et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Waltereit et al., 2000)

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

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