How to format your references using the European Journal for Philosophy of Science citation style

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

Alward, W. L. M. (2003). Biomedicine. A new angle on ocular development. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5612), 1527–1528.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kiberstis, P., & Marshall, E. (2011). Cancer crusade at 40. Celebrating an anniversary. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6024), 1539.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lorenz, K., Lohse, M. J., & Quitterer, U. (2003). Protein kinase C switches the Raf kinase inhibitor from Raf-1 to GRK-2. Nature, 426(6966), 574–579.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wu, G. D., Chen, J., Hoffmann, C., Bittinger, K., Chen, Y.-Y., Keilbaugh, S. A., et al. (2011). Linking long-term dietary patterns with gut microbial enterotypes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6052), 105–108.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stein, P. D. (2016). Pulmonary Embolism. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Caires, L., & Vasconcelos, V. T. (Eds.). (2007). CONCUR 2007 – Concurrency Theory: 18th International Conference, CONCUR 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, September 3-8, 2007. Proceedings (Vol. 4703). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hillairet, M. (2014). Topics in the Mathematical Theory of Interactions of Incompressible Viscous Fluid with Rigid Bodies. In T. Bodnár, G. P. Galdi, & Š. Nečasová (Eds.), Fluid-Structure Interaction and Biomedical Applications (pp. 257–320). Basel: 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 European Journal for Philosophy of Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 1). What Drove The Evolution Of Male Sharks’ Genitals? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-drove-evolution-male-sharks-genitals/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2001). FTS 2001: Contract Transition Delays and Their Impact on Program Goals (No. GAO-01-544T). 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

Limpert, S. M. (2017). A Qualitative Study of Learning Spaces at a Midwest Elementary School and its Relationship to Student Attitudes about Reading (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, February 16). Clawing Her Way Back to Normal. New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alward 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Alward 2003; Kiberstis and Marshall 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kiberstis and Marshall 2011)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Philos. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1879-4912
ISSN (online)	1879-4920
Scope	History and Philosophy of Science