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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 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

Barnes, David K. A. 2002. “Biodiversity: Invasions by Marine Life on Plastic Debris.” Nature 416 (6883): 808–809.

A journal article with 2 authors

Klausberger, Thomas, and Peter Somogyi. 2008. “Neuronal Diversity and Temporal Dynamics: The Unity of Hippocampal Circuit Operations.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 321 (5885): 53–57.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shim, Seung-Bo, Matthias Imboden, and Pritiraj Mohanty. 2007. “Synchronized Oscillation in Coupled Nanomechanical Oscillators.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 316 (5821): 95–99.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rasch, Björn, Christian Büchel, Steffen Gais, and Jan Born. 2007. “Odor Cues during Slow-Wave Sleep Prompt Declarative Memory Consolidation.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 315 (5817): 1426–1429.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mazer, Arthur. 2006. Electric Power Planning for Regulated and Deregulated Markets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Li, Daoliang, and Yingyi Chen, eds. 2013. Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture VI: 6th IFIP WG 5.14 International Conference, CCTA 2012, Zhangjiajie, China, October 19-21, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Vol. 392. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Erozan, Yener S., and Ibrahim Ramzy. 2014. “Respiratory Infections.” In Pulmonary Cytopathology, edited by Ibrahim Ramzy, 53–85. Essentials in Cytopathology. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2017. “Earliest Evidence Of Creating Specific Dog Breeds Found In Arctic Russia.” IFLScience, IFLScience, May 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. 2009. Teacher Quality: Sustained Coordination among Key Federal Education Programs Could Enhance State Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality. GAO-09-593. 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

Beaven, Lindsey. 2014. “Epiphanies of Soul: ‘When the Bolts of the Universe Fly Open.’ A Depth Psychological Contemplation of Wonder.” Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Sisario, Ben. 2017. “Concert Giants Seek Gold in New York Grit.” New York Times, January 30, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barnes 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Barnes 2002; Klausberger and Somogyi 2008).

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

Two authors: (Klausberger and Somogyi 2008)
Three authors: (Shim, Imboden, and Mohanty 2007)
4 or more authors: (Rasch et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Canadian Journal of Philosophy
Abbreviation	Can. J. Philos.
ISSN (print)	0045-5091
ISSN (online)	1911-0820
Scope	Philosophy