How to format your references using the Bakhtiniana: Journal of Discourse Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bakhtiniana: Journal of Discourse Studies. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

ROWE, D. Sustainability. Education for a Sustainable Future. Science (New York, N.Y.). v. 317, no. 5836, pp.323–324. 20 Jul. 2007

A journal article with 2 authors

LEA, A. M.; RYAN, M. J. SEXUAL SELECTION. Irrationality in Mate Choice Revealed by Túngara Frogs. Science (New York, N.Y.). v. 349, no. 6251, pp.964–966. 28 Aug. 2015

A journal article with 3 authors

RULIFSON, E. J.; KIM, S. K.; NUSSE, R. Ablation of Insulin-Producing Neurons in Flies: Growth and Diabetic Phenotypes. Science (New York, N.Y.). v. 296, no. 5570, pp.1118–1120. 10 May 2002

A journal article with 4 or more authors

JIN, P. et al. High-Yield Novel Leech Hyaluronidase to Expedite the Preparation of Specific Hyaluronan Oligomers. Scientific reports. v. 4, p.4471. 26 Mar. 2014

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

VON EYE, A.; MUN, E.-Y. Log-Linear Modeling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012

An edited book

SADJADI, F.; JAVIDI, B. (ed.). Physics of Automatic Target Recognition. New York, NY: Springer, 2007v. 3

A chapter in an edited book

CHAVES, I. D. G. et al. Chemical Reactors. In: Process Analysis and Simulation in Chemical Engineering. Edited by Javier Ricardo Guevara López et al. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. pp.195–240.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Bakhtiniana: Journal of Discourse Studies.

Blog post

DAVIS, J. Wet Weather May Genuinely Make Chronic Pain Worse. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/wet-weather-may-genuinely-make-chronic-pain-worse/. Access on: 30 October 2018.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE. Comments on JTPA Bills. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 20 May 1992.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

ATWILL, R. L. Evaluation of water and nitrogen management practices in southern US rice (Oryza sativa L.) production. 2015. (Doctoral dissertation) – Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 2015

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

PONIEWOZIK, J. Harshing the Mellow of Angsty Hipsters. New York Times. p.C9. 15 Sep. 2016

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Bakhtiniana: Journal of Discourse Studies
ISSN (print)	2176-4573
Scope