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

Schrope, M., ‘Digging Deep’, Nature, 447, no. 7142 447, no. 7142 (17 May 2007), 246–247.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brucker, R.M., and S.R. Bordenstein, ‘The Hologenomic Basis of Speciation: Gut Bacteria Cause Hybrid Lethality in the Genus Nasonia’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 341, no. 6146 341, no. 6146 (9 August 2013), 667–669.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin, X., C.M. Hull, and J. Heitman, ‘Sexual Reproduction between Partners of the Same Mating Type in Cryptococcus Neoformans’, Nature, 434, no. 7036 434, no. 7036 (21 April 2005), 1017–1021.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

de Montjoye, Y.-A., C.A. Hidalgo, M. Verleysen, and V.D. Blondel, ‘Unique in the Crowd: The Privacy Bounds of Human Mobility’, Scientific Reports, 3 3 (2013), 1376.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blanchet, G., and M. Charbit, Digital Signal and Image Processing Using Matlab® (Hoboken, NJ, 2015).

An edited book

Liu, Z., and J. He, eds., Formal Methods and Software Engineering: 8th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2006, Macao, China, November 1-3, 2006. Proceedings, vol. 4260, vol. 4260, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006).

A chapter in an edited book

Hirsch, M., and T.E. Passenbrunner, ‘Extension of Static Non-Linear DoE Identification Algorithms to Dynamic Systems’, in ed. R. Moreno-Díaz, F. Pichler, and A. Quesada-Arencibia, Computer Aided Systems Theory – EUROCAST 2011: 13th International Conference, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 6-11, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012), 33–40.

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., ‘Astronomers Discovered Where A Radio Burst Is From For The First Time’, IFLScience, 4 January 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-discovered-where-a-radio-burst-is-from-for-the-first-time/.

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, Global Positioning System: Production Should Be Limited Until Receiver Reliability Problems Are Resolved (Washington, DC, 20 March 1991).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McPeek, S.E., ‘Religious Rhetoric and the Radio: The Sermons of Rev. Dr. Oswald C.J. Hoffmann, International Lutheran Hour Speaker, 1955-1985’ (Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 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

Kaufman, M.T., ‘Lillian Ross Dies at 99; A New Yorker Reporter Whose Memoir Rankled’, New York Times, 20 September 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference M. Schrope, ‘Digging Deep’, Nature 447, no. 7142 (17 May 2007), 246–247, doi:10.1038/447246a.
This sentence cites two references M. Schrope, ‘Digging Deep’, Nature 447, no. 7142 (17 May 2007), 246–247, doi:10.1038/447246a; R.M. Brucker and S.R. Bordenstein, ‘The Hologenomic Basis of Speciation: Gut Bacteria Cause Hybrid Lethality in the Genus Nasonia’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 341, no. 6146 (9 August 2013), 667–669, doi:10.1126/science.1240659.
This sentence cites four references M. Schrope, ‘Digging Deep’, Nature 447, no. 7142 (17 May 2007), 246–247, doi:10.1038/447246a; R.M. Brucker and S.R. Bordenstein, ‘The Hologenomic Basis of Speciation: Gut Bacteria Cause Hybrid Lethality in the Genus Nasonia’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 341, no. 6146 (9 August 2013), 667–669, doi:10.1126/science.1240659; X. Lin, C.M. Hull, and J. Heitman, ‘Sexual Reproduction between Partners of the Same Mating Type in Cryptococcus Neoformans’, Nature 434, no. 7036 (21 April 2005), 1017–1021, doi:10.1038/nature03448; Y.-A. de Montjoye et al., ‘Unique in the Crowd: The Privacy Bounds of Human Mobility’, Scientific Reports 3 (2013), 1376, doi:10.1038/srep01376.

About the journal

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