Authors of articles accepted for publication in Informal Logic must submit the
publication version of the article in the following form. Accepted articles will not be
scheduled for publication until an appropriately formatted version of the ms. has been
received by the journal. Note the requirements for Notes, Citations and References listed
below.
For articles accepted for publication, insert each author’s name, institution and postal
address and email address immediately below the Title of the Paper and above the
Abstract.
Papers submitted for publication in Informal Logic must any remove all author-
identifying references from the body, notes and References of the paper.
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the template, delete the instructions within the brackets.
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References
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Notes
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Lengthy asides to the reader should be incorporated as subsections within the text.
Citations
References must be cited within the body of the text (never in footnotes) by the author’s
surname (or authors’ surnames) and year of publication in parentheses. No comma
between name(s) and date. When desired, insert page numbers (p. 14; pp. 76-77)
following a comma following the date. Do NOT use footnotes for citations. See the
following examples.
Examples:
◦ According to some, argumentation is a complex speech act (van Eemeren and
Grootendorst 1984).
◦ This view has been challenged by Govier (1988) and by Johnson (2000).
◦ There is a growing literature on visual argument (Birdsell and Groarke 1996; Hill and
Helmers et al. 2004; Roque 2005; Kjeldsen 2015).
◦ Blair claims there can be purely visual arguments (1996, pp. 30-32).
References list
The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have
been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished
works should be mentioned only in the text.
◦ Start the first line of each entry at the left margin, no blank line between entries.
◦ Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the initial letter of the surname of the
first author of each work. Names with prefixes (e.g., van Gelder or van Eemeren)
should be listed among surnames names starting with the initial letter of the name
following the prefix (e.g., van Gelder among the Gs, van Eemeren among the Es).
◦ Journal names and book titles should be italicized.
◦ Capitalize only the first letter of a book or article title, the first letter of the word
following a colon, and the first letters of proper names.
◦ Order the information, punctuate and leave spaces as in the following examples.
Examples:
◦ Journal articles
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Hample, Dale, Bing Han and David Payne. 2010. The aggressiveness of playful
arguments. Argumentation 24(4): 405-421.
van den Hoven, Paul. 1997. The dilemma of normativity: How to interpret a rational
reconstruction. Argumentation 11(2): 411-417.
Zarefsky, David. 2010. Turning points in the Galesburg debate. Argumentation and
Advocacy 46(3): 140-149.
◦ Books
van Eemeren, F. H., R. Grootendorst and T. Kruiger. 1984. The study of argumentation.
New York. Irvington Publishers, Inc.
Hill, Charles A. and Marguerite Helmers, eds. 2004. Defining visual rhetorics. Mahwah,
NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
◦ Book chapters
Krabbe, Erik C. W. 1995. Appeal to ignorance. In Fallacies: Classical and contemporary
readings, eds. Hans V. Hansen and Robert W. Pinto, 251-264. University Park, PA: The
University of Pennsylvania Press.
◦ Papers in published proceedings
van Belle, Hilda. 2007. When you don’t have anything to prove: Strategic manoeuvring
and rhetorical argumentation. In Proceedings of the sixth conference of the International
Society for the Study of Argumentation, eds. Frans H. van Eemeren, J. Anthony Blair,
Charles A. Willard, Bart Garssen, 107-112. Amsterdam: SicSat.
◦ Online documents
Groarke, Leo. 2015. Informal logic. In The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (summer
2015 edition), ed. Edward N. Zalta. URL accessed 14 December 2015:
<[Link]
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USE of a term or phrase (e.g., ... the famous “red” scare of the 1950s). Use single
quotes to indicate the MENTION of a term or phrase, and for quotations within
quotations (e.g., ‘Red’ was spelled in the previous example without an upper-case
‘r’.).
Punctuation in relation to quotation marks and parentheses
All punctuation goes outside any close (right-hand) quotation mark or close (right-
hand) parenthesis. A sentence’s terminal period follows the right-hand parenthesis
around a citation. Correct: Woods introduced the term ‘the gang of eighteen’
(Woods 1985).
Incorrect: Woods introduced the term ‘the gang of eighteen’. (Woods 1985)
British vs. U.S. spellings
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Either U.S. or British spelling conventions are acceptable, as long as the author
uses one or the other consistently throughout. Thus 'labor', ‘judgment’ and
‘premise’ are acceptable, as are 'labour', ‘judgement’ and ‘premiss’. The spelling
convention used in any passage directly quoted by the author should be retained,
even if it differs from the convention the author uses in the article.
“Foreign” words
Words in languages other than English should normally be italicized. E.g., “He
was awarded the prize as primum accessit”. “That’s a good example of secundum
quid”.