How to format your references using the The Journal of Value Inquiry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Value Inquiry. 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

Gibson, Mcguire. 2003. Conservation. Fate of Iraqi archaeology. Science (New York, N.Y.) 299: 1848–1849.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheng, Chen, and John F. Hartwig. 2014. Rhodium-catalyzed intermolecular C-H silylation of arenes with high steric regiocontrol. Science (New York, N.Y.) 343: 853–857.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rogers, Raymond R., David W. Krause, and Kristina Curry Rogers. 2003. Cannibalism in the Madagascan dinosaur Majungatholus atopus. Nature 422: 515–518.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wang, D., Z. Zhang, Z. Zhu, and B. Liang. 2014. Magnetic structure and magnetic transport properties of graphene nanoribbons with sawtooth zigzag edges. Scientific reports 4: 7587.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwedt, Georg. 2013. Experimente rund um die Kunststoffe des Alltags. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Canadell, Josep G., Diane E. Pataki, and Louis F. Pitelka, ed. 2007. Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World. Global Change — The IGBP Series. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Labandeira, Conrad C., Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar, and Alfred Uchman. 2016. The End-Cretaceous Extinction and Ecosystem Change. In The Trace-Fossil Record of Major Evolutionary Events: Volume 2: Mesozoic and Cenozoic, ed. M. Gabriela Mángano and Luis A. Buatois, 265–300. Topics in Geobiology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 The Journal of Value Inquiry.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. Two New Dwarf Planets Discovered in Outer Solar System. IFLScience. IFLScience. April 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. 1977. Problems and Needed Improvements in Evaluating Office of Education Programs. HRD-76-165. 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

Spisak, Gary Michael. 2012. Particulation. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Brantley, Ben. 2016. Dear Theatergoers: Prepare for a Good Cry. New York Times, December 8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Value Inquiry
Abbreviation	J. Value Inq.
ISSN (print)	0022-5363
ISSN (online)	1573-0492
Scope	Philosophy Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Law