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

Mueller, Kristen L. 2015. Cancer immunology and immunotherapy. Realizing the promise. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.) 348: 54–55.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brubaker, Sky W., and Denise M. Monack. 2015. IMMUNOLOGY. Microbial metabolite triggers antimicrobial defense. Science (New York, N.Y.) 348: 1207–1208.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kreiman, G., C. Koch, and I. Fried. 2000. Imagery neurons in the human brain. Nature 408: 357–361.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zhang, Dekai, Guolong Zhang, Matthew S. Hayden, Matthew B. Greenblatt, Crystal Bussey, Richard A. Flavell, and Sankar Ghosh. 2004. A toll-like receptor that prevents infection by uropathogenic bacteria. Science (New York, N.Y.) 303: 1522–1526.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox, Ian, Marie A. Gaudard, and Mia L. Stephens. 2016. Visual Six Sigma, Second Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Weerasinghe, Dasun, ed. 2009. Electronic Healthcare: First International Conference, eHealth 2008, London, UK, September 8-9, 2008. Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 0001. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chniter, Hamza, Mohamed Khalgui, and Fethi Jarray. 2016. Combinatorial Optimization Approach for Feasible Low-Power and Real-Time Flexible OS Tasks. In Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics: 11th International Conference, ICINCO 2014 Vienna, Austria, September 2-4, 2014 Revised Selected Papers, ed. Joaquim Filipe, Oleg Gusikhin, Kurosh Madani, and Jurek Sasiadek, 59–77. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Hale, Tom. 2017. Explore The Amazon With This Stunning 360° Virtual Reality Video. IFLScience. IFLScience. February 7.

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. 1992. Embedded Computer Systems: Significant Software Problems on C-17 Must Be Addressed. IMTEC-92-48. 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

Caraballo-Cole, Tania. 2012. Mindfulness-based mental health services for single mothers: A grant proposal. 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

Shear, Michael D., and Julie Hirschfeld Davis. 2017. U.S. Ends Program Giving ‘Dreamers’ Legal Protection. New York Times, September 5.

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

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