JHP AUTHOR’S STYLE SHEET
GENERAL
• File format: Microsoft Word™ in .docx format
• Margins: 1 inch all around; gutter 0, header/footer 0.5 inches
• Line spacing: exactly 24 point throughout body, bibliography, and endnotes
• Font: Times New Roman, 12 point throughout body, bibliography, and endnotes
• Paragraphs: left-justified (not centered), first line of section or subsection not indented, but
first line of remaining paragraphs in section or subsection indented (0.5 inches); no extra space
between paragraphs
• Headings: 2 return-spaces before, centered, 1 return-space after; Arabic numerals; no
boldfacing, no italics; headline-style capitalization (i.e. first letters only for nouns, pronouns,
verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and some conjunctions [see Chicago 17th edition 8.159])
Example:
4. Defeating the Deceiving God Argument
• Subheadings: 2 return-spaces before, left-justified, 1 return-space after; Arabic numerals;
italics; no boldfacing; provide a title for subheading; headline-style capitalization (i.e. first letters
only for nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and some conjunctions)
Example:
4.1. Dialectical Skepticism
• Spacing between all words, punctuation marks, etc. is no more than one space
• Endnotes (not footnotes; they will appear as footnotes in print, however): must be fewer than
350 words each; Arabic numerals
• Bibliography: first line of each entry left-justified; additional lines of each entry hanging 0.5”
(see examples below); use the 3 em-dash (———.) for multiple entries by same author; ensure
that the bibliography is arranged alphabetically (NB: “the,” “a,” “an” etc. do not count for
purposes of alphabetization)
• For Greek, use Unicode
• Spelling: Use American English spelling only
First Page Information (see Sample ms. for an illustrated example)
• For longer titles, please add an abbreviated title that will appear on the top of the right hand
page in print:
RH: Abbreviated Title
• Please include biographical information as follows (left-justified, top of page):
BIO: Jane Smith is Professor of Philosophy at Somesuch University
• Include paper title (headline-style capitalization, no boldfacing, no italics)
• Include an abstract of about 100 words:
Abstract: In this paper I argue that . . .
• Include keywords (capitalize the first word only and use commas, not semi-colons):
Keywords: Kant, a priori, transcendental idealism, cognition, object
• No endnotes are to be attached to the first page information, but must instead occur in the main
body of the paper; if applicable, acknowledgements should appear in the final endnote
CITATIONS
The Journal follows the 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (Chicago). For detailed
rules regarding construction of notes and bibliographies, consult chapter 14 of Chicago.
Citations are to appear in an abbreviated format in endnotes gathered at the end of the paper
(they will appear as footnotes when published). The endnotes are to be supplemented by a
separate section at the end of the paper entitled “Bibliography and Abbreviations,” in which
complete bibliographic information and abbreviations (if used) are provided for all works cited.
In both the endnotes and the bibliography, use the same font and spacing as main text.
The bibliographic information should include the author’s last name, first name (or initial, but
only in cases where the author publishes under initials), title of work, pagination range (for
articles or chapters in collected works), the place of publication and the publisher, and the date of
publication, followed by the abbreviation (if any) being used [in brackets] and italics, using
double-quotation marks for abbreviated essay titles. Format should be Hanging by 0.5". Please
follow this format exactly, including punctuation between elements:
Example:
Garber, Daniel. Descartes’ Metaphysical Physics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
[Metaphysical Physics]
*For works with especially long titles, you should use an abbreviated title in your endnotes and
ensure that your bibliography entry reflects this; if the title is already short, you do not need to
abbreviate.
Examples:
Bibliography entries:
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Radcliffe, Elizabeth. “Hume on the Generation of Motives: Why Beliefs Alone Never Motivate.”
Hume Studies 25 (1999): 101–22. [“Hume on the Generation of Motives”]
Wood, Allen. Kantian Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Endnote entries:
Elizabeth Radcliffe, “Hume on the Generation of Motives,” 110.
Allen Wood, Kantian Ethics, 34.
Subsequent entries for the same authors will omit the first name (see below).
When you do use an abbreviation, please follow these two rules:
(1) Avoid using acronyms unless they are standard conventions (e.g. ‘GP’ is standard for Die
philosophischen Schriften von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, ed. C. I. Gerhardt)
(2) Avoid providing identical abbreviated titles for different works having the same or similar
titles.
Citations appearing in endnotes should normally feature the author’s last name, the title, and
page- and/or section-numbers. The first mention of an author in the endnotes should include
the author’s first name as well. All subsequent references should give the last name only. If in
the body of your text a direct reference to the author precedes the quote for which the endnote
citation is given, the author’s name may be omitted from the endnote, but in no case may the title
of the work be omitted. For further guidelines on citations to page- and section-numbers, see
below.
Shortened citations to multivolume works:
For shortened citations of multivolume works, JHP allows one of two systems of citing volume
and page number, depending on whether volume number is given in Roman or Arabic numerals;
when there is a choice, use Arabic.
1. Roman: period follows Roman numeral; page number follows period without spacing.
Example: AT III.23 (AT = Oeuvres de Descartes, ed. Adam and Tannery)
2. Arabic: colon follows Arabic numeral; page number follows colon without spacing.
Example: G 2:195 (G = Spinoza Opera)
*Please note that the abbreviation for multi-volume works is not italicized in endnote (or in-text)
citations. (No comma follows acronym abbreviations for multi-volume works (e.g. AT III.23),
but a comma does follow shortened-title abbreviations for single-volume works (e.g. Locke,
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Essay, III.2.1). See ISSUES OF FORMAT 8 below.
Citations to book, chapter, section, subsection, page number, etc. within a work:
It is standard to refer to some philosophical works by the organizational scheme established by
the author. In an endnote, the title of the work (usually abbreviated) is followed by a comma
(unless the abbreviated title is an acronym, in which case no comma is used), and then the
citation is given. The citation scheme must be made clear in a footnote with the first
reference to the work.
Example:
First endnote citation: Essay, Book II, Chapter viii, Section 8. Citations from this work are
according to book, chapter, and section number in Peter Nidditch’s edition published by
Oxford.
Subsequent endnote citations: Essay, [Link].9.
If a page number is given in addition to these divisions, it is separated by a comma and a space,
and your explanation of the citation method should reflect this as well.
Example: Hutcheson, System, [Link]–viii, 122–34.
Citing notes from original sources: No intervening space or punctuation between
pagination/note numbers. For example,
Zuckert, Beauty and Biology, 161n44.
Combined references to the translation and the original text:
Authors choosing to refer to both the original language edition of a work and a translation should
follow these rules:
1. Abbreviated titles must be used for each edition.
2. In both in-text and endnote citations, the original language version of the text should be
cited first, separated by a forward-slash from the translation. Note that there is no intervening
space on either side of the forward slash.
3. No commas separate acronym abbreviations from page numbers, but commas do separate
shortened-title abbreviations from page numbers.
Example 1: “Furthermore, Dasein is an entity which in each case I myself am” (SZ 53/BT
78).
Example 2: Europe was in danger, Husserl said repeatedly (e.g. Hua.
VI.348/Crisis, 299), and his aim was to secure philosophy “in times of danger”
(Hua. VI.510/Crisis, 392).
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General Citation Formats:
A. Authored Books
Bibliography entry:
Harte, Verity. Plato on Parts and Wholes: The Metaphysics of Structure. Oxford: Clarendon,
2002. [Parts and Wholes]
Endnote citation:
Harte, Parts and Wholes, 273–81. (NB: en-dash between page numbers, and not a hyphen;
see Issues of Format 16, below for pagination ranges)
B. Edited or Translated Books with No Author
Bibliography entry:
Apelt, Otto, ed. Aristotelis quae feruntur De plantis, De mirabilibus auscultationibus,
Mechanica, De lineis insecabilibus, Ventorum situs et nomina, De Melisso, Xenophane,
Gorgia. Leipzig: Teubner, 1888. [MXG]
First endnote citation: Subsequent endnote or in-text citations:
Apelt, MXG 980b3. (MXG 980b3)
C. Edited or Translated Books with Original Author
Bibliography entry:
Adorno, Theodor W., and Walter Benjamin. The Complete Correspondence, 1928–1940. Edited
by Henri Lonitz. Translated by Nicholas Walker. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1999. [Correspondence]
Endnote citation:
Adorno and Benjamin, Correspondence, 122–48.
D. Articles in Edited Books
There are different ways of citing articles in edited books, depending on whether multiple
articles from the same edited book are referenced in the author’s paper.
(i) Bibliography entry if there is a citation of only a single contribution from an edited, multi-
author book:
Curley, Edwin. “Hobbes versus Descartes.” In Descartes and His Contemporaries: Meditations,
Objections, and Replies, edited by Roger Ariew and Marjorie Grene, 97–109. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1995.
* Note that the page range of the article must be given after the editors.
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Endnote citation:
Curley, “Hobbes versus Descartes,” 98.
(ii) Bibliography entry if there are several contributions from an edited, multi-author book:
* The editor of the multi-author book receives a separate bibliographic entry; the publication
details of the book appear with the editor’s entry; the full-page range of the article must be given
after the title of the multi-author book:
Marenbon, John. “Life, Milieu, and Intellectual Contexts.” In Brower and Guilfoy, Companion,
13–44. [“Life, Milieu”]
Jacobi, Klaus. “Philosophy of Language.” In Brower and Guilfoy, Companion, 126–57.
[“Language”]
Brower, Jeffrey E., and Kevin Guilfoy, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Abelard. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2004. [Companion]
Endnote citation:
Marenbon, “Life, Milieu,” 36.
E. Journal Articles
* Please supply only the volume number of the journal (i.e. leave out the issue number)
Bibliography entry:
Devereaux, Daniel, and David Demoss. “Essence, Existence, and Nominal Definition in
Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics II 8–10.” Phronesis 33 (1988): 133–54. [“Essence”]
Endnote citation:
Devereaux, “Essence,” 151.
F. Unpublished and Informally Published Material (Theses, Dissertations, and Papers)
* See Chicago 14.215–220. Titles of unpublished works appear in quotation marks—not italics.
If consulted online, provide a URL. For documents retrieved from a commercial database, give
the name of the database and, in parentheses, the identification number provided by the database.
Guilfoy, Kevin. “Peter Abelard’s Theory of the Proposition.” PhD diss., University of
Washington, 1998. Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (304538427).
[Theory]
For unpublished manuscripts, include the words “unpublished manuscript” and the date of the
version consulted in parentheses. End the citation with an indication of the format (e.g. Portable
Document File or Microsoft Word Format).
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Steinberger, Florian. “Three Ways Logic May Be Normative” (unpublished manuscript, April
13, 2017), Portable Document Format.
[Link]
[“Three Ways”]
G. Articles from Online Databases (e.g. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Kelly, Thomas. “Evidence.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N.
Zalta, URL = [Link] 2014.
PUNCTUATION AND QUOTATIONS
Quotation marks: Please follow American (not British) conventions regarding quotation marks.
1. Use double quotes
a. for titles of essays, poems, plays, etc. (Use singe quotes for titles within double-
quoted titles.)
b. for direct quotations of sentences, phrases, or, in some cases, words.
Example: Linguistic “parameters,” says Chomsky, are the basis of UG.
c. to indicate a word is being used in a special (e.g. metaphoric, metonymic,
obscure) sense.
Example: One could hardly say he “understood” the argument’s thrust.
2. Use single quotes
a. for quotes within quotes.
b. to indicate that a word is being mentioned.
Examples: (a) He used the term ‘belief.’ (b) I know what ‘thinking’ means.
Extended (or block) quotations should be spaced like the main body of the text, and are left-
justified. To clarify where a block quote starts and ends, please insert <ext> and </ext> tags at
the beginning and end of each quote. There should be one return space between the body of the
text and the <ext> and </ext> symbols (i.e. one return space before <ext> and one return space
after </ext>. The source of a block quotation should be given in parentheses after the final
punctuation mark of the quoted material.
Example:
<ext>
Furthermore there are other remarks in those writings that suggest, if only weakly,
a genuine distinction between motion and rest. In the Rules, for example, ‘rest’ is
listed as a simple nature, and distinguished from the simple nature of motion (AT X.420).
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(Garber, Metaphysical Physics, 163–64)
</ext>
Please also use <ext> and </ext> for any lists you provide that you would like indented from the
main text (e.g. if you are providing a reconstruction of an argument with numbered points). Do
not indent.
Example:
<ext>
P1: All humans are mortal
P2: Socrates is a human
C: Socrates is mortal
</ext>
The <ext> and </ext> indicate to the typesetter that the text is to be indented from the main text.
Quotes in foreign languages: both in the body of the paper and in footnotes, quotes in foreign
languages that are cases of use should not be italicized. Quotes of foreign words that are cases of
mention should be italicized and without quotation marks. Citations follow appropriate
formatting.
1. Example 1 (use): Fichte says, “Ich finde mich als wirkend in der Sinnenwelt. Davon hebt
alles Bewusstseyn an” (SW IV.3).
2. Example 2 (mention): Fichte’s use of the term Sinnenwelt is significant.
Periods and commas precede closing quotation marks. Colons, semicolons, question
marks, and exclamation points all follow closing quotation marks unless a question mark
or an exclamation point belongs within the quoted matter.
1. For example:
a. Who said, “The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being”?
b. Crito asked Socrates, “How shall we bury you?”
Commas: Chicago calls for the serial comma. See 6.19.
1. Example 1: She had read Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblicus, and Plutarch.
2. Example 2: Descartes, Leibniz, and Spinoza are known as rationalists.
Ellipses: see Chicago 13.50–56.
Insert full spaces before, after, and between the periods: “xxxx . . . xxxx” and not “xxxx …
xxxx”
Part of sentence before deletion constitutes a complete sentence: use 4 dots with no initial space:
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“xxxx. . . . xxxx”
Do not begin or end a quote with ellipses, and do not place brackets around ellipses. Exception:
Ellipses may appear at the end of a quote in cases where the sentence is deliberately incomplete
(See Chicago 13.55).
ABBREVIATIONS
1. No italics, no comma follows: viz.; cf.; esp. (see Issues of Format 13 below)
2. No italics, no comma precedes: et al.; etc.
3. No italics, no comma follows: i.e.; e.g. (see Issues of Format 13 below)
4. Internal endnote/footnote references: n. x. or ns. x and y.
5. In endnotes, volume = vol(s).; chapter = ch(s).; edition = ed.; revised = rev.; reprinted =
repr.; circa = ca.; paragraph = para. or ¶; section = sect. or §; editor(s) = ed.;
translator(s) = trans.
6. No use of p. or pp.
7. No use of f. or ff.
8. No use of sic.
9. No use of ibid. or op. cit.
ISSUES OF FORMAT
1. Titles within titles: un-italicize title within title.
2. No title should be in both italics and quotation marks.
3. Generic pronoun usage—“he or she,” exclusive male or exclusive female, male/female
alteration etc.—should vary according to each author’s preference. However, “s/he” is
unacceptable.
4. Variables (objects, times, persons): no quotes, italicize.
5. Initial textual (substantive) reference: full name, last name only thereafter. Exceptions are
names of renowned figures, e.g. Descartes, Kant.
6. External and internal references (in the main text) to chapters and sections: no caps,
Arabic numerals, “chapter 6”; “section 5.”
7. References to years: range 1787–90; decade 1780s. “’80s” is also acceptable in certain
cases, e.g. “1960s, ’70s, and ’80s.”
8. Acronyms for titles should be italicized: Nicomachean Ethics (NE); acronyms for
multivolume works should not: Kants gesammelte Schriften (Akademie-Ausgabe) (AA)
9. Use italics
a. for book, magazine, or journal titles
b. for emphasis (but please use sparingly, and only when necessary)
c. for non-English words or phrases. Exception: words or phrases common in
English are not italicized. E.g. ‘a priori,’ ‘qua,’ ‘prima facie,’ etc. (see Chicago
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7.54)
10. When the original language is referenced in a quote from a text translated into English,
the original language is set in italics and inside parentheses, should the original language
appear outside the quote marks, but inside square brackets, should the original language
appear inside the quote marks.
a. Example 1: “Universals are principles of cognizing [principia cognoscendi].”
b. Example 2: Heidegger distinguishes between ‘Being’ (das Sein) and ‘being’ (das
Seiende).
11. Do not use contractions!! (e.g. “don’t do it”)
12. Possessives: the Chicago rules on possessives have changed in the 17th edition (see
especially 7.18–20). Two changes are noteworthy: possessives of words and names
ending in an unpronounced ‘s’ and possessives of names such as ‘Parmenides’ now are
given with an apostrophe-s.
a. Example 1: Descartes’s three dreams
b. Example 2: Socrates’s companion
13. Abbreviations such as ‘e.g.,’ ‘i.e.,’ ‘viz.’ should occur in endnotes and parentheses only.
In the main text, spell out ‘for example/for instance,’ ‘that is,’ ‘namely’ etc. (see Chicago
10.42).
14. Caps in original quotes:
JHP AVOIDS introducing square brackets, for example, {He holds that “[t]he will is the
person” (83).}
JHP ALLOWS, for example, {He holds that “The will is the person” (83).}
JHP PREFERS constructions that leave no doubt about the original, for example, {He
holds, “The will is the person” (83).}
15. JHP PREFERS the active voice when possible
16. Pagination ranges (see Chicago 9.60):
First number Second number Examples
Less than 100 Use all digits 3–10
71–72
96–106
100 or multiples of 100 Use all digits 100–105
1100–1113
101 through 109 Use changed part only 101–8
201through 209 etc. 808–33
1103–4
110 through 199 Use two digits unless 321–28
210 through 299 etc. more are needed to 498–532
include all changed parts 1087–89
11564–1664
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Samples from a pseudo-ms. that will produce the example on the upper right in print.
In ms., no bold anywhere; no more than one space anywhere.
Text, bibliography, and notes: line spacing exactly 24 pt
12-pt Times New Roman type.
one line
skipped
two lines skipped before body of paper begins (no
new page), before each subheading, and before the
Bibliography and Abbreviations (no new page); no
new page before notes
one line skipped between subheadings and
text; one line skipped before and after an
indented quotation
