How to format your references using the Linguistics and Philosophy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Linguistics and 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	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

van Dam, K. (2007). A more attractive career. Nature, 446(7138), 946.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mbadugha, C. A., & Onakoya, A. O. (2014). The awareness, perceptions and experiences of primary open angle glaucoma patients in Lagos Nigeria. Scientific reports, 4, 7585.

A journal article with 3 authors

Park, H., Li, Y., & Tsien, R. W. (2012). Influence of synaptic vesicle position on release probability and exocytotic fusion mode. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6074), 1362–1366.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dong, M., Kathiresan, V., Fenwick, M. K., Torelli, A. T., Zhang, Y., Caranto, J. D., et al. (2018). Organometallic and radical intermediates reveal mechanism of diphthamide biosynthesis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 359(6381), 1247–1250.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rowe, W. B. (2010). Modern Grinding Techniques. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Schaefer, D. (Ed.). (2014). Product Development in the Socio-sphere: Game Changing Paradigms for 21st Century Breakthrough Product Development and Innovation. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Naeem, M. A., Bajwa, I. S., & Jamil, N. (2015). A Cache-Based Semi-Stream Join to deal with Unmatched Stream Data. In M. A. Sharaf, M. A. Cheema, & J. Qi (Eds.), Databases Theory and Applications: 26th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2015, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, June 4-7, 2015. Proceedings (pp. 54–65). 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 Linguistics and Philosophy.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, December 31). Nearby Star Is On A Collision Course With Our Solar System. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/more-dozen-stars-will-be-making-close-encounters-earth/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2000). Final Certification of TAP Fund (No. AIMD/OGC-00-250R). 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

Rivera, A. (2010). A post analysis of an advanced access appointment model (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

Branch, J. (2016, August 9). Granular Perspective on a Suitable Shore. New York Times, p. B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (van Dam 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Mbadugha and Onakoya 2014; van Dam 2007).

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

Two authors: (Mbadugha and Onakoya 2014)
Three or more authors: (Dong et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Linguistics and Philosophy
Abbreviation	Linguist. Philos.
ISSN (print)	0165-0157
ISSN (online)	1573-0549
Scope	Philosophy Linguistics and Language