How to format your references using the The Journal of Value Inquiry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Value Inquiry. 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

Humphries, Courtney. 2014. Drug development: a complicated path. Nature 515: S4-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Garcia-Pichel, F., and O. Pringault. 2001. Microbiology. Cyanobacteria track water in desert soils. Nature 413: 380–381.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brosco, V., Z-J Ying, and J. Lorenzana. 2013. Exact exchange-correlation potential of an ionic Hubbard model with a free surface. Scientific reports 3: 2172.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Thompson, Janelle R., Sarah Pacocha, Chanathip Pharino, Vanja Klepac-Ceraj, Dana E. Hunt, Jennifer Benoit, Ramahi Sarma-Rupavtarm, Daniel L. Distel, and Martin F. Polz. 2005. Genotypic diversity within a natural coastal bacterioplankton population. Science (New York, N.Y.) 307: 1311–1313.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zheng, Feng, and Thomas Kaiser. 2016. Digital Signal Processing for RFID. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Benguria, Rafael, Eduardo Friedman, and Marius Mantoiu, ed. 2012. Spectral Analysis of Quantum Hamiltonians: Spectral Days 2010. Vol. 224. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. Basel: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ustin, Susan L., David Riaño, Alexander Koltunov, Dar A. Roberts, and Philip E. Dennison. 2009. Mapping Fire Risk in Mediterranean Ecosystems of California: Vegetation type, Density, Invasive Species, and Fire Frequency. In Earth Observation of Wildland Fires in Mediterranean Ecosystems, ed. Emilio Chuvieco, 41–53. 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 The Journal of Value Inquiry.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2017. Check Out These Amazing Photos Of SpaceX’s Latest Super-Accurate Rocket Landing. IFLScience. IFLScience. January 19.

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. Public Transportation: Opportunities Exist to Improve the Communication and Transparency of Changes Made to the New Starts Program. GAO-05-674. 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

Bleicher, Juergen. 2008. Scenario methods as a means for enhancing organizational learning: A Delphi study. Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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, James. 2016. Cubs Pull Even as the Indians’ Play Proves Sloppier Than the Weather. New York Times, October 27.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Value Inquiry
Abbreviation	J. Value Inq.
ISSN (print)	0022-5363
ISSN (online)	1573-0492
Scope	Philosophy Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Law