How to format your references using the Review of Philosophy and Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Review of Philosophy and 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

Rusbridger, Alan. 2015. Scientists must speak up on fossil-fuel divestment. Nature 520: 265.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore, M. J., and M. Rosbash. 2001. Cell biology. TAPping into mRNA export. Science (New York, N.Y.) 294: 1841–1842.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bridgham, Jamie T., Sean M. Carroll, and Joseph W. Thornton. 2006. Evolution of hormone-receptor complexity by molecular exploitation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312: 97–101.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Moore, Corey B., Mina John, Ian R. James, Frank T. Christiansen, Campbell S. Witt, and Simon A. Mallal. 2002. Evidence of HIV-1 adaptation to HLA-restricted immune responses at a population level. Science (New York, N.Y.) 296: 1439–1443.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shick, Paul L. 2007. Topology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yamanouchi, Kaoru, Luis Roso, Ruxin Li, Deepak Mathur, and Didier Normand, ed. 2015. Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XII. 1st ed. 2015. Vol. 112. Springer Series in Chemical Physics. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Torres, Alvaro, and George J. Anders. 2011. Strategic Lines and Substations in an Electric Power Network. In Innovations in Power Systems Reliability, ed. George Anders and Alfredo Vaccaro, 169–190. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. London: 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 Review of Philosophy and Psychology.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2014. NASA Just Emailed A Wrench To The International Space Station. IFLScience. IFLScience. December 19.

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. 2016. Information Technology: Uncertainty Remains about the Bureau’s Readiness for a Key Decennial Census Test. GAO-17-221T. Washington, DC: 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

Dasari, Rohith Abhishek. 2016. Automatic driving system by recognizing road signs using digital image processing. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kenigsberg, Ben. 2016. Review: ‘My Blind Brother,’ Who Is Also a Major Pain. New York Times, September 22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rusbridger 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Moore and Rosbash 2001; Rusbridger 2015).

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

Two authors: (Moore and Rosbash 2001)
Three or more authors: (Moore et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Abbreviation	Rev. Philos. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1878-5158
ISSN (online)	1878-5166
Scope	Philosophy Experimental and Cognitive Psychology