How to format your references using the Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Yablonovitch, E. (2000). APPLIED PHYSICS: How to Be Truly Photonic. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5479), 557–559.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ding, T., & Schloss, P. D. (2014). Dynamics and associations of microbial community types across the human body. Nature, 509(7500), 357–360.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pagel, M., Atkinson, Q. D., & Meade, A. (2007). Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history. Nature, 449(7163), 717–720.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Hernández, P. A., Notsu, K., Salazar, J. M., Mori, T., Natale, G., Okada, H., Virgili, G., Shimoike, Y., Sato, M., & Pérez, N. M. (2001). Carbon dioxide degassing by advective flow from Usu volcano, Japan. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5514), 83–86.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hu, J. C. (2011). Asset Securitization. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Baldoni, R., & Chockler, G. (Eds.). (2012). Collaborative Financial Infrastructure Protection: Tools, Abstractions, and Middleware. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Erickson, T., Halverson, C. A., & Kellogg, W. A. (2008). Figuring Out How to Figure Out: Supporting Expertise Sharing in Online Systems. In C. A. Halverson, T. Erickson, & W. A. Kellogg (Eds.), Resources, Co-Evolution and Artifacts: Theory in CSCW (pp. 95–114). 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 Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, August 16). How Your Parent’s Lifespan Affects Your Health. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (2008). Aviation Weather: FAA Is Reevaluating Services at Key Centers; Both FAA and the National Weather Service Need to Better Ensure Product Quality (GAO-08-258). 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

Oldham, C. A. (2010). An investigation of genre and grammatical positioning in an online community [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

ADAM LIPTAK; Janet Roberts of The Times’s computer-assisted reporting unit contributed reporting for this series. She was assisted by Jack Styczynski, Anderson, D., Amster, L., Begg, J., Delaquérière, A., Jamison, S., Lyles, T., & Wilder, C. (2005, October 2). To More Inmates, Life Term Means Dying Behind Bars. New York Times, 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yablonovitch, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Ding & Schloss, 2014; Yablonovitch, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Ding & Schloss, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Hernández et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Abbreviation	Stud. Hist. Philos. Sci. B Stud. Hist. Philos. Modern Phys.
ISSN (print)	1355-2198
Scope	History History and Philosophy of Science General Physics and Astronomy