How to format your references using the Review of Philosophy and Psychology citation style

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

Weinstein, I. Bernard. 2002. Cancer. Addiction to oncogenes--the Achilles heal of cancer. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297: 63–64.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berke, J. D., and H. B. Eichenbaum. 2001. Drug addiction and the hippocampus. Science (New York, N.Y.) 294: 1235.

A journal article with 3 authors

van Loenhout, M. T. J., M. V. de Grunt, and C. Dekker. 2012. Dynamics of DNA supercoils. Science (New York, N.Y.) 338: 94–97.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Luminet, Jean-Pierre, Jeffrey R. Weeks, Alain Riazuelo, Roland Lehoucq, and Jean-Philippe Uzan. 2003. Dodecahedral space topology as an explanation for weak wide-angle temperature correlations in the cosmic microwave background. Nature 425: 593–595.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lafontaine, Eric, and Marc Comet. 2016. Nanothermites. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Preedy, Victor R., ed. 2012. Handbook of hair in health and disease. Vol. 1. Human Health Handbooks No. 1. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Curbera, G. P., and W. J. Ricker. 2007. Vector Measures, Integration and Applications. In Positivity, ed. Karim Boulabiar, Gerard Buskes, and Abdelmajid Triki, 127–160. Trends in Mathematics. Basel: 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 Review of Philosophy and Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle. 2015. Snake Bites Its Own Body AFTER Being Decapitated. IFLScience. IFLScience. July 7.

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. 1988. R&D Funding: The Department of Education in Perspective. PEMD-88-18FS. 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

Thom, Ryan C. 2017. Digital Martyrs and Shadowless Assailants: The Projective Shadow’s Emergence in Cyberspace. Doctoral dissertation, Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Lehman, Susan. 2017. Open Records Close the Case. New York Times, March 9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weinstein 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Berke and Eichenbaum 2001; Weinstein 2002).

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

Two authors: (Berke and Eichenbaum 2001)
Three or more authors: (Luminet et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Abbreviation	Rev. Philos. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1878-5158
ISSN (online)	1878-5166
Scope	Philosophy Experimental and Cognitive Psychology