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

Fry, D.P., ‘Life without War’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 336, no. 6083 336, no. 6083 (18 May 2012), 879–884.

A journal article with 2 authors

Woolhouse, M., and A. Donaldson, ‘Managing Foot-and-Mouth’, Nature, 410, no. 6828 410, no. 6828 (29 March 2001), 515–516.

A journal article with 3 authors

Verma, T., N.A.M. Araújo, and H.J. Herrmann, ‘Revealing the Structure of the World Airline Network’, Scientific Reports, 4 4 (9 July 2014), 5638.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Cury, P.M., I.L. Boyd, S. Bonhommeau, T. Anker-Nilssen, R.J.M. Crawford, R.W. Furness, J.A. Mills, et al., ‘Global Seabird Response to Forage Fish Depletion--One-Third for the Birds’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 334, no. 6063 334, no. 6063 (23 December 2011), 1703–1706.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kumar, V., Mobile Database Systems (Hoboken, NJ, 2006).

An edited book

Daniilidis, K., P. Maragos, and N. Paragios, eds., Computer Vision – ECCV 2010: 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 5-11, 2010, Proceedings, Part III, vol. 6313, vol. 6313, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010).

A chapter in an edited book

ter Mors, M., R. Drost, and F. Harmsen, ‘Project Portfolio Management in Practice’, in ed. F. Harmsen, E. Proper, F. Schalkwijk, J. Barjis, and S. Overbeek, Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation: Second Working Conference, PRET 2010, Delft, The Netherlands, November 11, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010), 107–126.

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

Luntz, S., ‘Australia’s “No Jab, No Pay” Vaccination Policy Seems To Be Working’, IFLScience, 1 August 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/australias-no-jab-no-pay-vaccination-policy-seems-to-be-working/.

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, Comments on Deletion of FTS 2000 Provision from 1996 Appropriation Act (Washington, DC, 7 July 1995).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Richards, O., ‘Teachers’ Perceptions About the Value of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: A Case Study’ (Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2017).

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

Crow, K., ‘Challenging Coffee in Manhattan, and Taking a Lump or 2’, New York Times, 5 August 2001.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference D.P. Fry, ‘Life without War’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 336, no. 6083 (18 May 2012), 879–884, doi:10.1126/science.1217987.
This sentence cites two references D.P. Fry, ‘Life without War’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 336, no. 6083 (18 May 2012), 879–884, doi:10.1126/science.1217987; M. Woolhouse and A. Donaldson, ‘Managing Foot-and-Mouth’, Nature 410, no. 6828 (29 March 2001), 515–516, doi:10.1038/35069250.
This sentence cites four references D.P. Fry, ‘Life without War’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 336, no. 6083 (18 May 2012), 879–884, doi:10.1126/science.1217987; M. Woolhouse and A. Donaldson, ‘Managing Foot-and-Mouth’, Nature 410, no. 6828 (29 March 2001), 515–516, doi:10.1038/35069250; T. Verma, N.A.M. Araújo, and H.J. Herrmann, ‘Revealing the Structure of the World Airline Network’, Scientific Reports 4 (9 July 2014), 5638, doi:10.1038/srep05638; P.M. Cury et al., ‘Global Seabird Response to Forage Fish Depletion--One-Third for the Birds’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 334, no. 6063 (23 December 2011), 1703–1706.

About the journal

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