How to format your references using the Argumentation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Argumentation. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Miller, Scott J. 2009. Chemistry. Total chemical synthesis peers into the biosynthetic black box. Science (New York, N.Y.) 324: 186–187.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hubbard, Judith, and John H. Shaw. 2009. Uplift of the Longmen Shan and Tibetan plateau, and the 2008 Wenchuan (M = 7.9) earthquake. Nature 458: 194–197.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sowers, Todd, Richard B. Alley, and Jennifer Jubenville. 2003. Ice core records of atmospheric N2O covering the last 106,000 years. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301: 945–948.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Marescaux, J., J. Leroy, M. Gagner, F. Rubino, D. Mutter, M. Vix, S. E. Butner, and M. K. Smith. 2001. Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery. Nature 413: 379–380.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ndjountche, Tertulien. 2016. Digital Electronics 1. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Smart, John C., ed. 2007. Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Vol. 22. Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, Ling, and Bo Zhang. 2007. Quotient Space Based Multi-granular Analysis. In Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management: Second International Conference, KSEM 2007, Melbourne, Australia, November 28-30, 2007. Proceedings, ed. Zili Zhang and Jörg Siekmann, 17–17. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 Argumentation.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. We Built A Robot Butler (But Don’t Throw Out The Ironing Board Just Yet). IFLScience. IFLScience. September 15.

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. 1999. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness Improving But Much Work Remains to Ensure Delivery of Critical Services. T-AIMD-99-149. 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

Hill, Brenna. 2010. HIV-specific CD8 T-cell clonality, publicity and function under different vaccine modalities. Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Lear, Sophia. 2010. Mirror, Mirror. New York Times, October 10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Miller 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Hubbard and Shaw 2009; Miller 2009).

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

Two authors: (Hubbard and Shaw 2009)
Three or more authors: (Marescaux et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Argumentation
ISSN (print)	0920-427X
ISSN (online)	1572-8374
Scope	Philosophy Linguistics and Language