How to format your references using the Journal of Social Philosophy citation style

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

Zrenner, Eberhart. 2002. “Will retinal implants restore vision?” Science (New York, N.Y.) no. 5557295: 1022–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Costa, Silvia and Shaw, Peter. 2006. “Chromatin organization and cell fate switch respond to positional information in Arabidopsis.” Nature no. 7075439: 493–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Villar, Gabriel; Graham, Alexander D and Bayley, Hagan. 2013. “A tissue-like printed material.” Science (New York, N.Y.) no. 6128340: 48–52.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, Liang et al. 2013. “New-concept batteries based on aqueous Li+/Na+ mixed-ion electrolytes.” Scientific reports3: 1946.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nova, Roberto. 2013. Soil Mechanics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Heinrich, Gert ed. 2011. Advanced Rubber Composites. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Izquierdo, Ebroul; Piatrik, Tomas and Zhang, Qianni. 2010. “3DLife: Bringing the Media Internet to Life.” In Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification, and Validation: 4th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications, ISoLA 2010, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, October 18-21, 2010, Proceedings, Part II Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed. Tiziana Margaria and Bernhard Steffen, 13–4. 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 Journal of Social Philosophy.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2016. New Satellite Returns First Remarkable Image Of The Arctic. IFLScience, Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-eu-radar-satellite-returns-first-remarkable-image-norwegian-arctic/.

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. 1997. Aviation Safety: Efforts to Implement Flight Operational Quality Assurance Programs. 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

Kohl, James Lucas. 2009. “The association of critical thinking and participation in living and learning programs: Residential Honors compared to Civic /Social Leadership programs and non -participation in living and learning programs.” Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Higgins, Andrew. 2013. “A Trail of Masterpieces and a Web of Lies, Leading to Anguish.” 07/27/2013.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Social Philosophy
Abbreviation	J. Soc. Philos.
ISSN (print)	0047-2786
ISSN (online)	1467-9833
Scope	Philosophy