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

Blowes, David. 2002. Environmental chemistry. Tracking hexavalent Cr in groundwater. Science (New York, N.Y.) 295: 2024–2025.

A journal article with 2 authors

McGuire, Jeffrey J., and Gregory C. Beroza. 2012. Geophysics. A rogue earthquake off Sumatra. Science (New York, N.Y.) 336: 1118–1119.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bai, T., D. D. Pollard, and H. Gao. 2000. Explanation for fracture spacing in layered materials. Nature 403: 753–756.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Malausa, Thibaut, Marie-Thérèse Bethenod, Arnaud Bontemps, Denis Bourguet, Jean-Marie Cornuet, and Sergine Ponsard. 2005. Assortative mating in sympatric host races of the European corn borer. Science (New York, N.Y.) 308: 258–260.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goddard Blythe, Sally. 2012. Assessing Neuromotor Readiness for Learning. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ram, A. Ranjith. 2012. Video Analysis and Repackaging for Distance Education. Edited by Subhasis Chaudhuri. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Richichi, A. 2008. Stellar Diameters: Breaking the Barriers. In The Power of Optical/IR Interferometry: Recent Scientific Results and 2nd Generation Instrumentation: Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 4-8 April 2005, ed. A. Richichi, F. Delplancke, F. Paresce, and A. Chelli, 31–42. Eso Astrophysics Symposia. 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 The Journal of Value Inquiry.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. 2016. This Site Helps You Delete Your Accounts And Disappear From The Internet. IFLScience. IFLScience. November 29.

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. 2011. Joint Strike Fighter: Restructuring Should Improve Outcomes, but Progress Is Still Lagging Overall. GAO-11-450T. 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

Wilson, Wendy C. 2015. Life satisfaction of Air Force civilian male spouses. 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

Forsythe, Michael, and Alexandra Stevenson. 2017. Murky Firm Is Behind A Donation Of $18 Billion. New York Times, July 27.

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