How to format your references using the Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy citation style

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

Newman, A.L., ‘What the “Right to Be Forgotten” Means for Privacy in a Digital Age’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 347, no. 6221 347, no. 6221 (30 January 2015), 507–508.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marquis, M., and P. Tans, ‘Climate Change. Carbon Crucible’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 320, no. 5875 320, no. 5875 (25 April 2008), 460–461.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ridgwell, A.J., M.J. Kennedy, and K. Caldeira, ‘Carbonate Deposition, Climate Stability, and Neoproterozoic Ice Ages’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 302, no. 5646 302, no. 5646 (31 October 2003), 859–862.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pfleiderer, C., P. Böni, T. Keller, U.K. Rössler, and A. Rosch, ‘Non-Fermi Liquid Metal without Quantum Criticality’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 316, no. 5833 316, no. 5833 (29 June 2007), 1871–1874.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kobilinsky, L., T.F. Liotti, and J. Oeser-Sweat, DNA: Forensic and Legal Applications (Hoboken, NJ, 2004).

An edited book

Dan, M.B., R. Přikryl, and Á. Török, eds., Materials, Technologies and Practice in Historic Heritage Structures (Dordrecht, 2010).

A chapter in an edited book

Schier, F., and S. Turial, ‘Right Upper Abdomen’, in ed. S. Turial, Laparoscopy in Children (Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013), 65–93.

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 Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., ‘Watch As The Sun Devours A Comet’, IFLScience, 5 August 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-as-the-sun-devours-a-comet/.

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, GAO Guide to Project Planning and Management (Washington, DC, 1 December 1978).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Templeton, T.H., ‘The Impact of Emergent Information and Communication Technology on Peacebuilding’ (Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2017).

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

Kishkovsky, S., ‘Bolshoi Official Raises Attack Questions’, New York Times, 12 March 2013.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference A.L. Newman, ‘What the “Right to Be Forgotten” Means for Privacy in a Digital Age’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 347, no. 6221 (30 January 2015), 507–508, doi:10.1126/science.aaa4603.
This sentence cites two references A.L. Newman, ‘What the “Right to Be Forgotten” Means for Privacy in a Digital Age’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 347, no. 6221 (30 January 2015), 507–508, doi:10.1126/science.aaa4603; M. Marquis and P. Tans, ‘Climate Change. Carbon Crucible’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 320, no. 5875 (25 April 2008), 460–461, doi:10.1126/science.1156451.
This sentence cites four references A.L. Newman, ‘What the “Right to Be Forgotten” Means for Privacy in a Digital Age’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 347, no. 6221 (30 January 2015), 507–508, doi:10.1126/science.aaa4603; M. Marquis and P. Tans, ‘Climate Change. Carbon Crucible’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 320, no. 5875 (25 April 2008), 460–461, doi:10.1126/science.1156451; A.J. Ridgwell, M.J. Kennedy, and K. Caldeira, ‘Carbonate Deposition, Climate Stability, and Neoproterozoic Ice Ages’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 302, no. 5646 (31 October 2003), 859–862, doi:10.1126/science.1088342; C. Pfleiderer et al., ‘Non-Fermi Liquid Metal without Quantum Criticality’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 316, no. 5833 (29 June 2007), 1871–1874, doi:10.1126/science.1142644.

About the journal

Full journal title	Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
ISSN (print)	0265-7651
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