How to format your references using the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion citation style

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

Gee, H. (2015). Origin and evolution of vertebrates. Nature, 520(7548), 449.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yao, Z., & Shafer, O. T. (2014). The Drosophila circadian clock is a variably coupled network of multiple peptidergic units. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6178), 1516–1520.

A journal article with 3 authors

Foley, S. F., Buhre, S., & Jacob, D. E. (2003). Evolution of the Archaean crust by delamination and shallow subduction. Nature, 421(6920), 249–252.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ye, D., Zheng, G., Wang, J., Wang, Z., Qiao, S., Huangfu, J., & Ran, L. (2013). Negative group velocity in the absence of absorption resonance. Scientific reports, 3, 1628.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dijksterhuis, G. B. (2008). Multivariate Data Analysis in Sensory and Consumer Science. Trumbull, Connecticut, USA: Food & Nutrition Press, Inc.

An edited book

Schuster, A. (Ed.). (2008). Robust Intelligent Systems (1st ed.). London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chantada, G. L., Leal-Leal, C., Stefan, D. C., Honavar, S., & Zhao, J. (2015). Retinoblastoma: International Perspective. In A. D. Singh, A. L. Murphree, & B. E. Damato (Eds.), Clinical Ophthalmic Oncology: Retinoblastoma (pp. 51–60). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, June 5). The ‘Houdini’ Honey Badger … And Other Surprisingly Clever Animals. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1988). Annual Index: Reports Issued in FY 1988 (No. 137743). 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

Anthony, P. J. (2008). Determining courses of action for educational leaders to achieve Adequate Yearly Progress (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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, September 29). Rich, and a Jerk, but Then, Wait for It . . . New York Times, p. C7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gee 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gee 2015; Yao and Shafer 2014).

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

Two authors: (Yao and Shafer 2014)
Three or more authors: (Ye et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
Abbreviation	Int. J. Philos. Relig.
ISSN (print)	0020-7047
ISSN (online)	1572-8684
Scope	Philosophy