How to format your references using the Topoi citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Topoi. 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

Toomre J (2002) Solar physics. Order amidst turbulence. Science 296:64–65

A journal article with 2 authors

Vance V, Vaucheret H (2001) RNA silencing in plants--defense and counterdefense. Science 292:2277–2280

A journal article with 3 authors

Scarola VW, Park K, Jain JK (2000) Cooper instability of composite fermions. Nature 406:863–865

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bringmann H, Skiniotis G, Spilker A, et al (2004) A kinesin-like motor inhibits microtubule dynamic instability. Science 303:1519–1522

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Garton AF (2008) Exploring Cognitive Development: The Child as Problem Solver. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Indulska J, Ma J, Yang LT, et al (eds) (2007) Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing: 4th International Conference, UIC 2007, Hong Kong, China, July 11-13, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Cheng J, Zhou M, Ye J (2013) The Study of Modern Emergency Products under the Direction of New Ergonomics. In: Rau PLP (ed) Cross-Cultural Design. Methods, Practice, and Case Studies: 5th International Conference, CCD 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 31–40

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 Topoi.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Not Extinct! Bouvier’s Red Colobus Monkey Photographed for the First Time. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1979) Science and Engineering Manpower Forecasting: Its Use in Policymaking. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Croghan A (2014) The Effects of Depressive Symptomatology, Intrusive Thinking, and Age on Cognitive Functioning. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Marshall L (2011) From Granny’s Store to G.M. New York Times BU9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Toomre 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Vance and Vaucheret 2001; Toomre 2002).

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

Two authors: (Vance and Vaucheret 2001)
Three or more authors: (Bringmann et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Topoi
Abbreviation	Topoi (Dordr.)
ISSN (print)	0167-7411
ISSN (online)	1572-8749
Scope	Philosophy