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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal for General 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

Strobl, M. (2014). General solution for quantitative dark-field contrast imaging with grating interferometers. Scientific reports, 4, 7243.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ferraro, P. J., & Kiss, A. (2002). Ecology. Direct payments to conserve biodiversity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5599), 1718–1719.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kormendy, J., Bender, R., & Cornell, M. E. (2011). Supermassive black holes do not correlate with galaxy disks or pseudobulges. Nature, 469(7330), 374–376.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Harvey, C. D., Yasuda, R., Zhong, H., & Svoboda, K. (2008). The spread of Ras activity triggered by activation of a single dendritic spine. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5885), 136–140.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mazze, R. S., Strock, E. S., Bergenstal, R. M., Criego, A., Cuddihy, R., Langer, O., et al. (2011). Staged Diabetes Management. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Prokop, A., Iwasaki, Y., & Harada, A. (Eds.). (2014). Intracellular Delivery II: Fundamentals and Applications (Vol. 7). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Huggenberger, P., Epting, J., Affolter, A., Butscher, C., Fäh, D., Gechter, D., et al. (2011). Examples and Case Studies. In P. Huggenberger & J. Epting (Eds.), Urban Geology: Process-Oriented Concepts for Adaptive and Integrated Resource Management (pp. 95–191). 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 Journal for General Philosophy of Science.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2015, July 16). Improved Lab-Grown Burger Will Be Sold On The Mainstream Market. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/improved-lab-grown-burger-will-eventually-be-served-mainstream-market-unfinished/. 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. (2005). Health and Human Services’ Estimate of Health Care Cost Savings Resulting from the Use of Information Technology (No. GAO-05-309R). 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

Martinez, V. (2010). The relationship between visit to a doctor and the health behaviors of children (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

Wagner, J. (2017, October 7). Rendon, Perhaps the Best Player on the Nationals, Hides in Plain Sight. New York Times, p. SP3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Strobl 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Ferraro and Kiss 2002; Strobl 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ferraro and Kiss 2002)
Three or more authors: (Harvey et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal for General Philosophy of Science
Abbreviation	Z. Allg. Wissenschaftstheor.
ISSN (print)	0925-4560
ISSN (online)	1572-8587
Scope	History and Philosophy of Science Philosophy General Social Sciences