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REFERENCES

Use italics, not underlining, for book and journal titles.
For well-known cities, omit state/country name from facts of publication.
Omit the abbreviations 'p.' and 'pp.' for page numbers.
You may cite works with either (a) bibliographic footnotes, or (b) author-date references, but not with both. The former are more common in scholarly writing in the humanities, but the latter often require less space overall and usually simplify typesetting (because the number of footnotes is greatly reduced). (With the author-date system, substantive footnotes are, of course, still permitted.) See the Chicago Manual of Style for detailed information; examples of reference types are shown below.

Bibliographic Footnotes

Journal article: Stephen Yablo, "Mental Causation," Philosophical Review 101 (1992): 245-80.
Book: Samuel Scheffler, Human Morality (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 25-30.
Article in a book: John W. Houck, "Stories and Culture in Business Life," in A Virtuous Life in Business: Stories of Courage and Integrity in the Corporate World, ed. Oliver F. Williams and John W. Houck (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1992), 129-38.
Note:

For repeated references, do not use 'op. cit.' - use a short title instead (e.g., Yablo, "Mental Causation").

You may use 'ibid.' (not italicized) where appropriate.

If you make many references to a single work, you may (and are encouraged to) give bibliographic information in a footnote at the first such reference, and then, for subsequent references, give page numbers only, in parentheses, run in to the main text.

Author-Date References

References are run in to the text, enclosed in parentheses, like so: (Yablo 1992, 248-52). The author's name may be omitted if it is clearly implied by context.
Note the distinction between 'Yablo 1992', which refers to a work, and 'Yablo (1992)', which is a reference to Yablo the person, followed by a parenthetical reference to one of Yablo's works.
In the reference list, at the end of the article, entries take the following forms:

Journal article: Yablo, Stephen. 1992. Mental Causation. Philosophical Review 101:245-80.
Book: Scheffler, Samuel. 1992. Human Morality. New York: Oxford University Press.
Article in a book: Houck, John W. 1992. Stories and Culture in Business Life. In A Virtuous Life in Business: Stories of Courage and Integrity in the Corporate World, edited by Oliver F. Williams and John W. Houck, 129-38. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield.

MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS OF STYLE

Abbreviations. Most abbreviations - including 'i.e.' and 'e.g.' - should be spelled out and rendered in English.
Emphasis. Use italics, not underlining.
Greek. In most cases, Greek text should be transliterated.
Quotation marks. Use double quotation marks for quoted material run into the text, and for irony and other literary purposes. Use single quotation marks for quoted material within a quotation and to mention linguistic expressions.
Spelling. Use American spelling. You may retain British spelling in direct quotes.