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

Hoag, Hannah. 2003. Tougher rules aim to prevent gene flow into crops. Nature 422: 103.

A journal article with 2 authors

Diffenbaugh, Noah S., and Christopher B. Field. 2013. Changes in ecologically critical terrestrial climate conditions. Science (New York, N.Y.) 341: 486–492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Madhu, Rajesh, Vediyappan Veeramani, and Shen-Ming Chen. 2014. Heteroatom-enriched and renewable banana-stem-derived porous carbon for the electrochemical determination of nitrite in various water samples. Scientific reports 4: 4679.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zhang, Bin, Yan Zhang, Zheming Wang, Dongwei Wang, Peter J. Baker, Francis L. Pratt, and Daoben Zhu. 2014. Candidate quantum spin liquid due to dimensional reduction of a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice. Scientific reports 4: 6451.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blair, Robert, and Joe M. Regenstein. 2015. Genetic Modification and Food Quality. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Jones, Allen. 2006. Visual C# 2005 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach. Edited by Matthew MacDonald and Rakesh Rajan. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Tiwari, Rajnish, and Cornelius Herstatt. 2014. Need for a Rethink. In Aiming Big with Small Cars: Emergence of a Lead Market in India, ed. Cornelius Herstatt, 89–97. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. An Artificial Pancreas Has Just Made Giving Birth Safer For Diabetic Women. IFLScience. IFLScience. May 7.

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. 1978. Computer Misuse by the Sigma Corporation, a NASA Contractor. PSAD-78-148. 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

Hernandez, Amanda N. 2017. Connecting the Community: A Grant Proposal. 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

Billard, Mary. 2013. Embracing Change, Quietly. New York Times, September 5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Hoag 2003; Diffenbaugh and Field 2013).

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

Two authors: (Diffenbaugh and Field 2013)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

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