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

Miller, Scott J. 2009. Chemistry. Total chemical synthesis peers into the biosynthetic black box. Science (New York, N.Y.) 324: 186–187.

A journal article with 2 authors

Srinivasan, Kartik, and Oskar Painter. 2007. Linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy of a strongly coupled microdisk-quantum dot system. Nature 450: 862–865.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takahashi, Kazutoshi, Kaoru Mitsui, and Shinya Yamanaka. 2003. Role of ERas in promoting tumour-like properties in mouse embryonic stem cells. Nature 423: 541–545.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Nel, Andre, Tian Xia, Lutz Mädler, and Ning Li. 2006. Toxic potential of materials at the nanolevel. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311: 622–627.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tadros, Tharwat F. 2010. Colloids in Paints. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Tweedale, Jeffrey W. 2012. Embedded Automation in Human-Agent Environment. Edited by Lakhmi C. Jain. Vol. 10. Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nishida, Toyoaki. 2011. Towards Conversational Artifacts. In Brain Informatics: International Conference, BI 2011, Lanzhou, China, September 7-9, 2011. Proceedings, ed. Bin Hu, Jiming Liu, Lin Chen, and Ning Zhong, 22–27. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Evans, Katy. 2017. To Save Its Birds, New Zealand Plans To Kill All Its Rodents. IFLScience. IFLScience. May 12.

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. 1996. Human Resources Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. AA-96-29(2). 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

DiPasquale, Victoria L. 2010. A phenomenological study of industry professionals’ perceptions of ethics in the title insurance industry. Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Thrush, Glenn, Michael D. Shear, and Eileen Sullivan. 2017. Former General Taking Control At White House. New York Times, August 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Miller 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Srinivasan and Painter 2007; Miller 2009).

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

Two authors: (Srinivasan and Painter 2007)
Three or more authors: (Nel et al. 2006)

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