How to format your references using the International Studies in the Philosophy of Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Studies in the 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

Smaglik, Paul. 2003. “Capturing Competencies.” Nature 421 (6925): 871.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sanders, Rogier W., and John P. Moore. 2014. “HIV: A Stamp on the Envelope.” Nature 514 (7523): 437–438.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhou, Jiawei, Benjamin Thompson, and Robert F. Hess. 2013. “A New Form of Rapid Binocular Plasticity in Adult with Amblyopia.” Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 2638.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Franzese, G., G. Malescio, A. Skibinsky, S. V. Buldyrev, and H. E. Stanley. 2001. “Generic Mechanism for Generating a Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition.” Nature 409 (6821): 692–695.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez, Robert X., and Andrew P. Conkey. 2016. Troubleshooting Rotating Machinery. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hristu-Varsakelis, Dimitrios, and William S. Levine, eds. 2005. Handbook of Networked and Embedded Control Systems. 1st ed. Control Engineering. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Duistermaat, J. J., and J. A. C. Kolk. 2010. “Differentiation of Distributions.” In Distributions: Theory and Applications, edited by J. A. C. Kolk, 45–49. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

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 Studies in the Philosophy of Science.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Could One Million Smart Pool Pumps ‘Store’ Renewable Energy Better Than Giant Batteries?” IFLScience, IFLScience, June 15. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/could-one-million-smart-pool-pumps-store-renewable-energy-better-giant-batteries/.

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. 1991. Airline Competition: Industry Competitive and Financial Problems. T-RCED-91-89. 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

Holman, Rebecca. 2014. “Music History Pedagogy: Three Approaches to Teaching a One-Semester Music History Survey Course in Accordance with the LEAP Initiative.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kelly, Michael. 1992. “THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton Accuses Bush of Dodging Responsibilities.” New York Times, July 30, 1992.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2003; Sanders and Moore 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sanders and Moore 2014)
Three authors: (Zhou, Thompson, and Hess 2013)
4 or more authors: (Franzese et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Abbreviation	Int. Stud. Philos. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0269-8595
ISSN (online)	1469-9281
Scope	History and Philosophy of Science