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

Margolis, Helen S. 2013. Physics. How big is the proton? Science (New York, N.Y.) 339: 405–406.

A journal article with 2 authors

Steinhardt, Paul J., and Neil Turok. 2002. A cyclic model of the universe. Science (New York, N.Y.) 296: 1436–1439.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schroder, Kate, Rongbin Zhou, and Jurg Tschopp. 2010. The NLRP3 inflammasome: a sensor for metabolic danger? Science (New York, N.Y.) 327: 296–300.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Farquhar, J., J. Savarino, T. L. Jackson, and M. H. Thiemens. 2000. Evidence of atmospheric sulphur in the martian regolith from sulphur isotopes in meteorites. Nature 404: 50–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rouse, William B. 2016. Universities as Complex Enterprises. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Marchand-Maillet, Stéphane, Eric Bruno, Andreas Nürnberger, and Marcin Detyniecki, ed. 2007. Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval: User, Context, and Feedback: 4th International Workshop, AMR 2006, Geneva, Switzerland, July 27-28, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 4398. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Depaulis, Frantz, Sylvain Mousset, and Michel Veuille. 2005. Detecting Selective Sweeps with Haplotype Tests. In Selective Sweep, ed. Dmitry Nurminsky, 34–54. Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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. 2014. 5 Scary Effects Of Climate Change That Could Happen In Your Lifetime. IFLScience. IFLScience. July 21.

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. 1997. Transportation Infrastructure: Estimated Funding Under the Transportation Empowerment Act. RCED-97-73R. 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

Pan, Yi. 2010. Long-Term Effects of Higher-Quality Early Childhood Education for At-Risk Children on Their Later Development and Resilience. Doctoral dissertation, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Almosawa, Shuaib, and Nour Youssef. 2017. Shattered Yemen Falls Victim to Another Deadly Enemy: Cholera. New York Times, July 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Margolis 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Steinhardt and Turok 2002; Margolis 2013).

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

Two authors: (Steinhardt and Turok 2002)
Three or more authors: (Farquhar et al. 2000)

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