Is Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics a journal or book series

Question

I'd like to know if Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics by Elsevier is a journal or book series. The reason I am asking is that its recent issues look like a book series. However, its issues of the 1960s published papers "Assigning Probabilities to Logical Formulas" by Scott and Krauss as well as "Probabilistic inference and the concept of total evidence" by Suppes. So it also looks like a journal.

Answer 1

The web page for the series clearly labels it as a book series.

The two papers you mention, "Assigning Probabilities to Logical Formulas" by Scott and Krauss and "Probabilistic inference and the concept of total evidence" by Suppes are actually chapters of Volume 43, Aspects of Inductive Logic, edited by Hintikka and Suppes.

Book chapters in edited volumes are often difficult to distinguish from research papers. Sometimes they are in fact research papers, in the case when the volume is conference proceedings from a conference where the paper was presented. In the specific case of Volume 43, the preface tells us that 8 of the 14 chapters are papers originally presented at an International Symposium on Confirmation and Information in Helsinki in 1965. However, neither of the papers you mention, by Scott and Krauss and by Suppes, are among those listed in the preface as being presented in Helsinki. Presumably these authors (one of whom is an editor of the volume) were invited to submit work to the volume in preparation, to supplement the Hensinki proceedings.

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In the comments below, the OP raised the issue of the proper way to cite these book chapters. Bibliography styles vary, but a good example is the citation of the Scott and Krauss paper on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Interpretations of Probability.

Scott D., and Krauss P.,1966, “Assigning Probabilities to Logical Formulas”, in Aspects of Inductive Logic, J. Hintikka and P. Suppes (eds.), Amsterdam: North-Holland, 219–264.

In BibTeX, the template you use for a book chapter in an edited volume is @incollection (whereas you use @article for a journal article and @inproceedings for a conference paper).