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BibTeX Citation String (Fall 2018 Archive Edition)

There are over 50 BibTeX styles and no standard format that is guaranteed to work for all 50. So, we suggest you use our string as a 'useful suggestion' that might need to be adapted for your particular BibTeX file. Also note that the double braces around the title is to preserve capitalization. You may wish to edit that as well.
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	author       =	{D'Agostino, Fred and Gaus, Gerald and Thrasher, John},
	title        =	{{Contemporary Approaches to the Social Contract}},
	booktitle    =	{The {Stanford} Encyclopedia of Philosophy},
	editor       =	{Edward N. Zalta},
	howpublished =	{\url{https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2018/entries/contractarianism-contemporary/}},
	year         =	{2018},
	edition      =	{{F}all 2018},
	publisher    =	{Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}
}

BibTeX Citation String (Current Version in Summer 2021 Archive)

There are over 50 BibTeX styles and no standard format that is guaranteed to work for all 50. So, we suggest you use our string as a 'useful suggestion' that might need to be adapted for your particular BibTeX file. Also note that the double braces around the title is to preserve capitalization. You may wish to edit that as well.

@InCollection{sep-contractarianism-contemporary,
	author       =	{D'Agostino, Fred and Gaus, Gerald and Thrasher, John},
	title        =	{{Contemporary Approaches to the Social Contract}},
	booktitle    =	{The {Stanford} Encyclopedia of Philosophy},
	editor       =	{Edward N. Zalta},
	howpublished =	{\url{https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2021/entries/contractarianism-contemporary/}},
	year         =	{2021},
	edition      =	{{S}ummer 2021},
	publisher    =	{Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}
}