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

Blaxter, M., ‘Genetics. Revealing the Dark Matter of the Genome’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 330, no. 6012 330, no. 6012 (24 December 2010), 1758–1759.

A journal article with 2 authors

Flint, J., and M. Munafò, ‘Schizophrenia: Genesis of a Complex Disease’, Nature, 511, no. 7510 511, no. 7510 (24 July 2014), 412–413.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mendell, J.T., C.M.J. ap Rhys, and H.C. Dietz, ‘Separable Roles for Rent1/HUpf1 in Altered Splicing and Decay of Nonsense Transcripts’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 298, no. 5592 298, no. 5592 (11 October 2002), 419–422.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Diebold, S.S., M. Montoya, H. Unger, L. Alexopoulou, P. Roy, L.E. Haswell, A. Al-Shamkhani, R. Flavell, P. Borrow, and C. Reis e Sousa, ‘Viral Infection Switches Non-Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells into High Interferon Producers’, Nature, 424, no. 6946 424, no. 6946 (17 July 2003), 324–328.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mead, D.E., Becoming a Marriage and Family Therapist (Oxford, UK, 2013).

An edited book

Ritsner, M.S., ed., Polypharmacy in Psychiatry Practice, Volume II: Use of Polypharmacy in the ‘Real World’ (Dordrecht, 2013).

A chapter in an edited book

Ermine, W., and J. Pittman, ‘Nikan Oti (the Future): Adaptation and Adaptive Capacity in Two First Nations Communities’, in ed. W. Leal Filho, The Economic, Social and Political Elements of Climate Change, Climate Change Management (Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011), 69–80.

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

Andrews, R., ‘Court Rules That Kids Can Sue US Government Over Climate Change’, IFLScience, 16 November 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/court-rules-that-kids-can-sue-us-government-over-climate-change/.

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, Technology Innovation: Improving the Climate for Government-Industry Cooperation (Washington, DC, 11 May 1976).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Swinford, R.R., ‘Adapted Dance - Connecting Mind, Body and Soul’ (Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 2012).

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

MacFARQUHAR, N., ‘Russia’s Villages, and Their Culture, Are “Melting Away”’, New York Times, 29 July 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference M. Blaxter, ‘Genetics. Revealing the Dark Matter of the Genome’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 330, no. 6012 (24 December 2010), 1758–1759, doi:10.1126/science.1200700.
This sentence cites two references M. Blaxter, ‘Genetics. Revealing the Dark Matter of the Genome’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 330, no. 6012 (24 December 2010), 1758–1759, doi:10.1126/science.1200700; J. Flint and M. Munafò, ‘Schizophrenia: Genesis of a Complex Disease’, Nature 511, no. 7510 (24 July 2014), 412–413, doi:10.1038/nature13645.
This sentence cites four references M. Blaxter, ‘Genetics. Revealing the Dark Matter of the Genome’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 330, no. 6012 (24 December 2010), 1758–1759, doi:10.1126/science.1200700; J. Flint and M. Munafò, ‘Schizophrenia: Genesis of a Complex Disease’, Nature 511, no. 7510 (24 July 2014), 412–413, doi:10.1038/nature13645; J.T. Mendell, C.M.J. ap Rhys, and H.C. Dietz, ‘Separable Roles for Rent1/HUpf1 in Altered Splicing and Decay of Nonsense Transcripts’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 298, no. 5592 (11 October 2002), 419–422; S.S. Diebold et al., ‘Viral Infection Switches Non-Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells into High Interferon Producers’, Nature 424, no. 6946 (17 July 2003), 324–328, doi:10.1038/nature01783.

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