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	author       =	{Boyd, Nora Mills and Bogen, James},
	title        =	{{Theory and Observation in Science}},
	booktitle    =	{The {Stanford} Encyclopedia of Philosophy},
	editor       =	{Edward N. Zalta},
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	year         =	{2021},
	edition      =	{{S}pring 2021},
	publisher    =	{Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}
}

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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-science-theory-observation,
	author       =	{Boyd, Nora Mills and Bogen, James},
	title        =	{{Theory and Observation in Science}},
	booktitle    =	{The {Stanford} Encyclopedia of Philosophy},
	editor       =	{Edward N. Zalta},
	howpublished =	{\url{https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2021/entries/science-theory-observation/}},
	year         =	{2021},
	edition      =	{{S}ummer 2021},
	publisher    =	{Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}
}