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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. 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 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

Schiermeier, Q. (2003). Deep-sea sub aims to get to the bottom of a muddy issue. Nature, 423(6939), 469.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lin, S.-C., & van Keken, P. E. (2005). Multiple volcanic episodes of flood basalts caused by thermochemical mantle plumes. Nature, 436(7048), 250–252.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bailor, M. H., Sun, X., & Al-Hashimi, H. M. (2010). Topology links RNA secondary structure with global conformation, dynamics, and adaptation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5962), 202–206.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nagao, K., Okazaki, R., Nakamura, T., Miura, Y. N., Osawa, T., Bajo, K.-I., Matsuda, S., Ebihara, M., Ireland, T. R., Kitajima, F., Naraoka, H., Noguchi, T., Tsuchiyama, A., Yurimoto, H., Zolensky, M. E., Uesugi, M., Shirai, K., Abe, M., Yada, T., … Kawaguchi, J. (2011). Irradiation history of Itokawa regolith material deduced from noble gases in the Hayabusa samples. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6046), 1128–1131.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Braudeau, E., Assi, A. T., & Mohtar, R. H. (2016). Hydrostructural Pedology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Miransari, M. (Ed.). (2014). Use of Microbes for the Alleviation of Soil Stresses: Volume 2: Alleviation of Soil Stress by PGPR and Mycorrhizal Fungi. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, J., & Huang, W. (2014). The EMMS Principle in Virtual Process Engineering. In W. Huang (Ed.), Towards Mesoscience: The Principle of Compromise in Competition (pp. 45–49). 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 Science.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2017, April 3). 10 Things Every Child With Autism Wishes You Knew. 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. (2001). Internal Revenue Service: Results of Review of IRS Spending for Business Systems Modernization (GAO-01-920). 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

Harris, N. S. (2012). The Impact of Action Learning Experience on Reflective Practice [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Hubbard, B. (2017, January 14). Learning to Speak Al Jazeera. New York Times, SR3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Lin & van Keken, 2005; Schiermeier, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Lin & van Keken, 2005)
Three authors: (Bailor et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Nagao et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Abbreviation	Stud. Hist. Philos. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0039-3681
Scope	General Medicine History History and Philosophy of Science General Physics and Astronomy