How to format your references using the Studies in Philosophy and Education citation style

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

Linnarsson, Sten. 2015. NEUROSCIENCE. A tree of the human brain. Science (New York, N.Y.) 350: 37.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, Elizabeth H., and Eric N. Olson. 2005. Unveiling the mechanisms of cell-cell fusion. Science (New York, N.Y.) 308: 369–373.

A journal article with 3 authors

Verhulst, Eveline C., Leo W. Beukeboom, and Louis van de Zande. 2010. Maternal control of haplodiploid sex determination in the wasp Nasonia. Science (New York, N.Y.) 328: 620–623.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bhattacharyya, Roby P., Attila Reményi, Matthew C. Good, Caleb J. Bashor, Arnold M. Falick, and Wendell A. Lim. 2006. The Ste5 scaffold allosterically modulates signaling output of the yeast mating pathway. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311: 822–826.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dauphiné, André. 2012. Fractal Geography. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Setola, Roberto, and Stefan Geretshuber, ed. 2009. Critical Information Infrastructure Security: Third International Workshop, CRITIS 2008, Rome, Italy, October13-15, 2008. Revised Papers. Vol. 5508. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lewis, Robert H., and Evangelos A. Coutsias. 2007. Algorithmic Search for Flexibility Using Resultants of Polynomial Systems. In Automated Deduction in Geometry: 6th International Workshop, ADG 2006, Pontevedra, Spain, August 31-September 2, 2006. Revised Papers, ed. Francisco Botana and Tomas Recio, 68–79. 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 Studies in Philosophy and Education.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. Genetically Modified Cows Show Increased Tuberculosis Resistance. IFLScience. IFLScience. March 5.

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. 1984. U.S. Objectives Generally Achieved at Broadcasting Satellite International Conference--Improvements Can Help in Future Conferences. RCED-84-157. 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

Adler, Abby Danielle. 2012. Change in Automatic and Strategic Cognition: An Examination of Cognitive Therapy for Depression. Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

Kelly, Christopher. 2013. A Holiday Gift Guide To a Library of Books With Local Connections. New York Times, December 8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Linnarsson 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Chen and Olson 2005; Linnarsson 2015).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Olson 2005)
Three or more authors: (Bhattacharyya et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Studies in Philosophy and Education
Abbreviation	Stud. Philos. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0039-3746
ISSN (online)	1573-191X
Scope	Philosophy Education