How to format your references using the Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Oxford Studies in Ancient 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

DeWeerdt, S., ‘The Beeline’, Nature, 521, no. 7552 521, no. 7552 (21 May 2015), S50-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jones, J.M., and M. Widmann, ‘Atmospheric Science: Early Peak in Antarctic Oscillation Index’, Nature, 432, no. 7015 432, no. 7015 (18 November 2004), 290–291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whitmore, D., N.S. Foulkes, and P. Sassone-Corsi, ‘Light Acts Directly on Organs and Cells in Culture to Set the Vertebrate Circadian Clock’, Nature, 404, no. 6773 404, no. 6773 (2 March 2000), 87–91.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Smalley, D.E., E. Nygaard, K. Squire, J. Van Wagoner, J. Rasmussen, S. Gneiting, K. Qaderi, et al., ‘A Photophoretic-Trap Volumetric Display’, Nature, 553, no. 7689 553, no. 7689 (24 January 2018), 486–490.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Callard, F., N. Sartorius, J. Arboleda-Flórez, P. Bartlett, H. Helmchen, H. Stuart, J. Taborda, and G. Thornicroft, Mental Illness, Discrimination and the Law (Chichester, UK, 2012).

An edited book

Oris, M., C. Roberts, D. Joye, and M. Ernst Stähli, eds., Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course, vol. 3, vol. 3, Life Course Research and Social Policies (Cham, 2016).

A chapter in an edited book

Herkenhoff, L., and J. Fogli, ‘Survey Design’, in ed. J. Fogli, Applied Statistics for Business and Management Using Microsoft Excel (New York, NY, 2013), 117–141.

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 Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., ‘Listen To The Eerie Music From The First “Underwater Band”’, IFLScience, 15 May 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/listen-eerie-music-first-underwater-band/.

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, Motor Vehicle Safety: Comprehensive State Programs Offer Best Opportunity for Increasing Use of Safety Belts (Washington, DC, 3 January 1996).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Hakes, C.J., ‘Off -Campus Work and Its Relationship to Students’ Experiences with Faculty Using the College Student Experiences Questionnaire’ (Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2010).

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

Haberman, M., and R. Pear, ‘Trump Jumps In, Trying to Propel Health Care Bill’, New York Times, 9 March 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference S. DeWeerdt, ‘The Beeline’, Nature 521, no. 7552 (21 May 2015), S50-1, doi:10.1038/521S50a.
This sentence cites two references S. DeWeerdt, ‘The Beeline’, Nature 521, no. 7552 (21 May 2015), S50-1, doi:10.1038/521S50a; J.M. Jones and M. Widmann, ‘Atmospheric Science: Early Peak in Antarctic Oscillation Index’, Nature 432, no. 7015 (18 November 2004), 290–291, doi:10.1038/432290b.
This sentence cites four references S. DeWeerdt, ‘The Beeline’, Nature 521, no. 7552 (21 May 2015), S50-1, doi:10.1038/521S50a; J.M. Jones and M. Widmann, ‘Atmospheric Science: Early Peak in Antarctic Oscillation Index’, Nature 432, no. 7015 (18 November 2004), 290–291, doi:10.1038/432290b; D. Whitmore, N.S. Foulkes, and P. Sassone-Corsi, ‘Light Acts Directly on Organs and Cells in Culture to Set the Vertebrate Circadian Clock’, Nature 404, no. 6773 (2 March 2000), 87–91; D.E. Smalley et al., ‘A Photophoretic-Trap Volumetric Display’, Nature 553, no. 7689 (24 January 2018), 486–490.

About the journal

Full journal title	Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
ISSN (print)	0265-7651
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