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

Hardie, D. G. (2010). Transcription. Targeting the core of transcription. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5996), 1158–1159.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burghardt, T. P., & Ajtai, K. (2012). Cell biology. Heart brakes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6099), 1182–1183.

A journal article with 3 authors

Godfrey, D. I., Pellicci, D. G., & Smyth, M. J. (2004). Immunology. The elusive NKT cell antigen--is the search over? Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5702), 1687–1689.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dellis, O., Dedos, S. G., Tovey, S. C., Taufiq-Ur-Rahman, Dubel, S. J., & Taylor, C. W. (2006). Ca2+ entry through plasma membrane IP3 receptors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5784), 229–233.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Collier, C. G. (2016). Hydrometeorology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Neri, E. (2012). Il Dentascan (S. Mazziotti, Ed.; Vol. 5). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Trunfio, G. A. (2015). Adaptation in Cooperative Coevolutionary Optimization. In I. Fister & I. Fister Jr. (Eds.), Adaptation and Hybridization in Computational Intelligence (pp. 91–109). 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 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, August 22). Windowless Planes Offer Passengers Spectacular Panoramic Views. 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. (2003). Geographic Information Systems: Challenges to Effective Data Sharing (GAO-03-874T). 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

Okada, T. (2012). Corporate culture and organizational efficiency in the competitive international market [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Poniewozik, J. (2016, October 20). The Ghost in the Machine May Be Your Soul. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hardie, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Burghardt & Ajtai, 2012; Hardie, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Burghardt & Ajtai, 2012)
Three authors: (Godfrey et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Dellis et al., 2006)

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

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