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

Ehrsson, H. Henrik. 2007. The experimental induction of out-of-body experiences. Science (New York, N.Y.) 317: 1048.

A journal article with 2 authors

Han, Yilong, and David G. Grier. 2003. Fluid dynamics: Vortex rings in a constant electric field. Nature 424: 267–268.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jablonski, David, Kaustuv Roy, and James W. Valentine. 2006. Out of the tropics: evolutionary dynamics of the latitudinal diversity gradient. Science (New York, N.Y.) 314: 102–106.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Neumüller, Ralph A., Joerg Betschinger, Anja Fischer, Natascha Bushati, Ingrid Poernbacher, Karl Mechtler, Stephen M. Cohen, and Juergen A. Knoblich. 2008. Mei-P26 regulates microRNAs and cell growth in the Drosophila ovarian stem cell lineage. Nature 454: 241–245.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Misra, Sudip, and Sumit Goswami. 2017. Network Routing. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Wild, Alexander, ed. 2012. CAS and Football: Landmark Cases. ASSER International Sports Law Series. The Hague, The Netherlands: T. M. C. Asser Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Delepoulle, Samuel, Christophe Renaud, and Michaël Chelle. 2009. Improving Light Position in a Growth Chamber through the Use of a Genetic Algorithm. In Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Computer Graphics, ed. Dimitri Plemenos and Georgios Miaoulis, 67–82. Studies in Computational Intelligence. 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

Davis, Josh. 2017. Fungi Found In Toxic Lake Produce New Antibiotic. IFLScience. IFLScience. May 4.

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. 1969. Administration and Control of Procurement and Utilization of Automatic Data Processing. 089444. 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

Howard-Skipper, Joni. 2014. Leadership that promotes teacher empowerment among urban middle school science teachers. Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Stewart, James B. 2016. Berlusconi a Precedent for Trump. New York Times, December 2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ehrsson 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Han and Grier 2003; Ehrsson 2007).

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

Two authors: (Han and Grier 2003)
Three or more authors: (Neumüller et al. 2008)

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