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Style Guide for Authors submitting articles to Philosophy and Canon Law
In order to minimize delays to publication Authors as well as Translators are requested to format papers according to the following style guide. The style guide is based on the Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.). The following instructions are to facilitate the editing and publication processes.
Quick guide:
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
Selected examples of footnotes and bibliography
(1) works cited for the first time in an article;
(2) shortened versions of the same work cited for the second time.
Book:
one author
Bibliography:
Kerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums. New York: Penguin, 1976.
two or more authors
Bibliography: (only the first author’s nam is inverted)
Berger, Peter L., and Thomas Luckmann. The Social Construction of Reality. A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. New York: Penguin Books, 1966.
Edited book
Bibliography:
Kamuf, Peggy, ed. A Derrida Reader. Between the Blinds. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Chapter in an edited book
Bibliography:
Starnes, John Eric. “Mr. Turner’s Fears and Fantasies: The Turner Diaries and White Fear in America.” In Fearful Symmetries. Representations of Anxiety in Cultural, Literary and Political Discourses, edited by Leszek Drong and Jacek Mydla, 266–75. Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2013.
Translated book
Bibliography:
Pinckaers, Servais. The Sources of Christian Ethics. Translated by Mary Thomas Noble. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1995.
Article in a journal
Printed
Bibliography:
Szahaj, Andrzej. “ Ideologia wielokulturowości – kontekst filozoficzny i polityczny.” Er(r)go 6 (2003): 35–51.
Article in an online journal
Write DOI (Digital Object Identifier) and access date; if DOI in unavailable write URL.
Bibliography:
Welch, Tana Jean. “Entangled Species. The Inclusive Posthumanist Ecopoetics of Juliana Spahr.” Journal of Ecocriticism 6 (2014): 1–25. Accessed July 13, 2014. http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe/article/view/502.
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Vol. 9 No. 2 (2023)
Published: 2024-07-03