How to format your references using the Continental Philosophy Review citation style

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

Eisenstein, Michael. 2011. Vaccines: a moving target. Nature 474: S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ding, Hong-Ming, and Yu-Qiang Ma. 2013. Controlling cellular uptake of nanoparticles with pH-sensitive polymers. Scientific reports 3: 2804.

A journal article with 3 authors

Canfield, Donald E., Alexander N. Glazer, and Paul G. Falkowski. 2010. The evolution and future of Earth’s nitrogen cycle. Science (New York, N.Y.) 330: 192–196.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Shahid, Saima, Gunjune Kim, Nathan R. Johnson, Eric Wafula, Feng Wang, Ceyda Coruh, Vivian Bernal-Galeano, et al. 2018. MicroRNAs from the parasitic plant Cuscuta campestris target host messenger RNAs. Nature 553: 82–85.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott, Danny W. 2008. Color Atlas of Farm Animal Dermatology. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Kurokawa, Riki, ed. 2015. Long Noncoding RNAs: Structures and Functions. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Markwald, Roger R., Shibnath Ghatak, Suniti Misra, Ricardo A. Moreno-Rodríguez, Yukiko Sugi, and Russell A. Norris. 2016. Congenital Heart Disease: In Search of Remedial Etiologies. In Etiology and Morphogenesis of Congenital Heart Disease: From Gene Function and Cellular Interaction to Morphology, ed. Toshio Nakanishi, Roger R. Markwald, H. Scott Baldwin, Bradley B. Keller, Deepack Srivastava, and Hiroyuki Yamagishi, 33–45. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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 Continental Philosophy Review.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2014. Ancient Grass Preserved in Impact Glass. IFLScience. IFLScience. April 19.

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. 2006. Next Generation Air Transportation System: Progress and Challenges Associated with the Transformation of the National Airspace System. GAO-07-25. 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

Diaz Gonzalez, Alfredo J. 2017. High-Pressure Study of Bio-inspired Multi-Functional Nanocomposites Using Atomic Force Microscopy Methods. 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

Rothenberg, Ben. 2017. Tricky Draw, and Tricky Hip, Stand in Way of Murray’s Title Defense. New York Times, June 30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenstein 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Eisenstein 2011; Ding and Ma 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ding and Ma 2013)
Three or more authors: (Shahid et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Continental Philosophy Review
Abbreviation	Cont. Philos. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1387-2842
ISSN (online)	1573-1103
Scope	Philosophy Sociology and Political Science