How to format your references using the Philosophical Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Philosophical Psychology. 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

Schooler, J. (2011). Unpublished results hide the decline effect. Nature, 470(7335), 437.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aeppli, G., & Soh, Y. A. (2001). Physics Quantum criticality in a clean metal. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5541), 315–316.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ye, F., Burns, M. J., & Naughton, M. J. (2014). Structured metal thin film as an asymmetric color filter: the forward and reverse plasmonic halos. Scientific Reports, 4, 7267.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Christian, K. M., Poulos, A. M., Lavond, D. G., & Thompson, R. F. (2004). Comment on “Cerebellar LTD and learning-dependent timing of conditioned eyelid responses.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5668), 211; author reply 211.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Retherford, R. D., & Choe, M. K. (1993). Statistical Models for Causal Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Farzanegan, M. R., & Alaedini, P. (Eds.). (2016). Economic Welfare and Inequality in Iran: Developments since the Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan US.

A chapter in an edited book

Kłos, M., & Waszczyszyn, Z. (2010). Prediction of Compaction Characteristics of Granular Soils by Neural Networks. In K. Diamantaras, W. Duch, & L. S. Iliadis (Eds.), Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2010: 20th International Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 15-18, 2010, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 42–45). Springer.

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 Philosophical Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, May 12). Touch Is The Sense We Understand The Least – But Maybe Not For Much Longer. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/touch-sense-we-understand-least-maybe-not-much-longer/

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. (2004). Transportation Security R&D: TSA and DHS Are Researching and Developing Technologies, but Need to Improve R&D Management (GAO-04-890). 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

Davis, T. E. (2010). Sedimentation solutions for the Port of Gulfport, MS [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State University.

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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, August 26). Bringing to Light a Seminal Figure. New York Times, SP4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schooler, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Aeppli & Soh, 2001; Schooler, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Aeppli & Soh, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Christian et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Philosophical Psychology
Abbreviation	Philos. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0951-5089
ISSN (online)	1465-394X
Scope	Philosophy Applied Psychology