How to format your references using the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 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

Flower, R. (2000). The man who knew doses. Nature, 406(6798), 831.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stephenson, N. L., & Das, A. J. (2011). Comment on “Changes in climatic water balance drive downhill shifts in plant species’ optimum elevations.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6053), 177; author reply 177.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rupar, P. A., Staroverov, V. N., & Baines, K. M. (2008). A cryptand-encapsulated germanium(II) dication. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5906), 1360–1363.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hole, J. A., Catchings, R. D., St Clair, K. C., Rymer, M. J., Okaya, D. A., & Carney, B. J. (2001). Steep-dip seismic imaging of the shallow San Andreas fault near Parkfield. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5546), 1513–1515.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jawlik, A. A. (2016). Statistics from A to Z: Confusing Concepts Clarified. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kim, K. C. (Ed.). (2014). Robotics in General Surgery. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Văduva, S., Alistar, V. T., Thomas, A. R., Lupiţu, C. D., & Neagoie, D. S. (2016). Stakeholders’ Management. In V. T. Alistar, A. R. Thomas, C. D. Lupiţu, & D. S. Neagoie (Eds.), Moral Leadership in Business: Towards a Business Culture of Integrity (pp. 45–75). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2015, February 21). Check Out This Blue Sea Slug Eating A Blue Button Jelly. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/check-out-blue-sea-slug-eating-blue-button-jelly/. 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. (2012). Planning and Flexibility Are Key to Effectively Deploying Broadband Conduit through Federal Highway Projects (No. GAO-12-687R). 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

Zelaya, G. S. (2012). Hopelessness and diabetes: Do Hispanic diabetic patients feel less hopeless eating fruits, vegetables and exercising regularly? (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Hodgman, J. (2016, November 4). Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times, p. MM26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Flower 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Flower 2000; Stephenson and Das 2011).

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

Two authors: (Stephenson and Das 2011)
Three or more authors: (Hole et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Abbreviation	Hist. Philos. Life Sci.
ISSN (print)	0391-9714
ISSN (online)	1742-6316
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) History History and Philosophy of Science