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

Brody, Herb. 2012. Graphene. Nature 483: S29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sennett, Rachel, and Michael Rendl. 2015. Developmental biology. A scar is born: origins of fibrotic skin tissue. Science (New York, N.Y.) 348: 284–285.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, Inês, Peter J. Christie, and David Dubnau. 2005. The ins and outs of DNA transfer in bacteria. Science (New York, N.Y.) 310: 1456–1460.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ishikawa, Toshihiro, Hiroyuki Yamaoka, Yoshikatsu Harada, Teruaki Fujii, and Toshio Nagasawa. 2002. A general process for in situ formation of functional surface layers on ceramics. Nature 416: 64–67.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nash, Colin E. 2011. The History of Aquaculture. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Lüttge, Ulrich, and Wolfram Beyschlag, ed. 2015. Progress in Botany: Vol. 76. Vol. 76. Progress in Botany, Genetics - Physiology - Systematics - Ecology. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ayers, Michael. 2008. Locke’s Account of Abstract Ideas—Again. In Studies on Locke: Sources, Contemporaries, and Legacy, ed. Sarah Hutton and Paul Schuurman, 59–73. Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idées / International Archives of The History of Ideas. 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

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2015. Watch This Amazing Self-Healing Material That Could Instantly Repair Damaged Spacecraft. IFLScience. IFLScience. August 27.

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. 1988. Wallop-Breaux Trust Fund. T-RCED-88-38. 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

Salinsky, John L. 2012. Local disaster preparedness for the disabled population: Are we ready? 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

Capecchi, Christina, and Timothy Williams. 2011. Helicopter Crash Victims Named. New York Times, August 12.

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