How to format your references using the Australasian Journal of Philosophy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australasian Journal of Philosophy (AJP). 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 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

Tsai, Jessica W (2015) ‘The M.D.-Ph.D. Double Agent’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 350: 1434.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krasnopolsky, V A and P D Feldman (2001) ‘Detection of Molecular Hydrogen in the Atmosphere of Mars’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 294: 1914–17.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ravi, Maruthachalam, Mohan P A Marimuthu, and Imran Siddiqi (2008) ‘Gamete Formation without Meiosis in Arabidopsis’, Nature 451: 1121–24.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gilbert, Benjamin, Feng Huang, Hengzhong Zhang, Glenn A Waychunas, and Jillian F Banfield (2004) ‘Nanoparticles: Strained and Stiff’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 305: 651–54.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stacey, Weston M (2012) Fusion Plasma Physics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Cavallini, Fabio (2013) Quasi-Geostrophic Theory of Oceans and Atmosphere: Topics in the Dynamics and Thermodynamics of the Fluid Earth, vol. 45, Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, Fulvio Crisciani, ed. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhbanova, Evgeniya V and Leonid M Zubov (2016) ‘The Influence of Distributed Dislocations on Large Deformations of an Elastic Sphere’, in Konstantin Naumenko and Marcus Aßmus, eds., Advanced Methods of Continuum Mechanics for Materials and Structures: 61–76. 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 Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise (2015) ‘This Atom Makes Quantum Computing Light Work’, IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/atom-makes-quantum-computing-light-work/.

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 (2008) Commercial Drivers: Certification Process for Drivers with Serious Medical Conditions. 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

Lemay, Michael (2009) Understanding the Mechanism of Panel Attrition. Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD, University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Walsh, Mary Williams (2016) ‘Supreme Court Hears Plea for Help From Puerto Rico’, New York Times 23 March, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tsai 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Krasnopolsky and Feldman 2001; Tsai 2015).

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

Two authors: (Krasnopolsky and Feldman 2001)
Three authors: (Ravi, Marimuthu, and Siddiqi 2008)
4 or more authors: (Gilbert, Huang, et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australasian Journal of Philosophy
ISSN (print)	0004-8402
ISSN (online)	1471-6828
Scope