How to format your references using the International Journal of Philosophy and Theology citation style

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

Oldroyd, Giles E. D. “Plant Science. Nodules and Hormones.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 315, no. 5808 (January 5, 2007): 52–53.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sitia, Roberto, and Ineke Braakman. “Quality Control in the Endoplasmic Reticulum Protein Factory.” Nature 426, no. 6968 (December 18, 2003): 891–94.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoder, Bruce L., Régis Bisson, and Rainer D. Beck. “Steric Effects in the Chemisorption of Vibrationally Excited Methane on Ni(100).” Science (New York, N.Y.) 329, no. 5991 (July 30, 2010): 553–56.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Misra, Snigdha, Ajay Kumar, Ch Ratnasekhar, Vandana Sharma, Mohana Krishna Reddy Mudiam, and Kristipati Ravi Ram. “Exposure to Endosulfan Influences Sperm Competition in Drosophila Melanogaster.” Scientific Reports 4 (December 11, 2014): 7433.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nikrityuk, Petr A. Computational Thermo-Fluid Dynamics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2011.

An edited book

Barsukov, Igor V., Christopher S. Johnson, Joseph E. Doninger, and Vyacheslav Z. Barsukov, eds. New Carbon Based Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems: Batteries, Supercapacitors and Fuel Cells. Vol. 229. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Xie, Hui, Cagdas Onal, Stéphane Régnier, and Metin Sitti. “Nanomechanics of AFM Based Nanomanipulation.” In Atomic Force Microscopy Based Nanorobotics: Modelling, Simulation, Setup Building and Experiments, edited by Cagdas Onal, Stéphane Régnier, and Metin Sitti, 87–143. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012.

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 of Philosophy and Theology.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. “Bolivia’s Fast-Melting Glaciers Are Leaving Behind Lakes That Could Cause Catastrophic Floods.” IFLScience. IFLScience, October 21, 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/bolivias-fast-melting-glaciers-are-leaving-behind-lakes-that-could-cause-catastrophic-floods/.

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. “National Airspace System: Assessment of FAA’s Efforts to Augment the Global Positioning System.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, June 8, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Alexandre, Kelly Marie. “Identifying Mechanisms Regulating Wnt Signaling during Postembryonic Development.” Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2009.

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

Powell, Kevin. “He’s Got It From Here.” New York Times, April 19, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Philosophy and Theology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Philos. Theol.
ISSN (print)	2169-2327
ISSN (online)	2169-2335
Scope	Philosophy Religious studies