How to format your references using the Computer Assisted Language Learning citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computer Assisted Language Learning. 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

Cibelli, J. (2007). Developmental biology. A decade of cloning mystique. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5827), 990–992.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roman, J., & Palumbi, S. R. (2003). Whales before whaling in the North Atlantic. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5632), 508–510.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zylka, M. J., Philpot, B. D., & King, I. F. (2014). Zylka et al. reply. Nature, 512(7512), E2.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yuan, Y., Dong, Q., Yang, B., Guo, F., Zhang, Q., Han, M., & Huang, J. (2013). Solution-processed nanoparticle super-float-gated organic field-effect transistor as un-cooled ultraviolet and infrared photon counter. Scientific Reports, 3, 2707.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jacobsson, M., Niemegeers, I., & Heemstra de Groot, S. (2010). Personal Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kim, K. J., Wattanapongsakorn, N., & Joukov, N. (Eds.). (2016). Mobile and Wireless Technologies 2016 (Vol. 391). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dayal, U., Vennelakanti, R., Sharma, R., Castellanos, M., Hao, M., & Patel, C. (2008). Collaborative Business Intelligence: Enabling Collaborative Decision Making in Enterprises. In R. Meersman & Z. Tari (Eds.), On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008: OTM 2008 Confederated International Conferences, CoopIS, DOA, GADA, IS, and ODBASE 2008, Monterrey, Mexico, November 9-14, 2008, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 8–25). Springer.

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 Computer Assisted Language Learning.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, July 18). SpaceX To Deliver Radiation-Eating Fungi From Chernobyl To The ISS. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-to-deliver-radiationeating-fungi-from-chernobyl-to-the-iss/

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. (1995). School Finance: Three States’ Experiences With Equity in School Funding (HEHS-96-39). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gibb, A. (2012). Implementing U.S. security strategy in the 21st century: A three-part examination of the evolving role of the military in American foreign and security policy [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2004, March 19). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Apartment Toll At 58. New York Times, A8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Cibelli, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Cibelli, 2007; Roman & Palumbi, 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Roman & Palumbi, 2003)
Three authors: (Zylka et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Yuan et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computer Assisted Language Learning
Abbreviation	Comput. Assist. Lang. Learn.
ISSN (print)	0958-8221
ISSN (online)	1744-3210
Scope	Language and Linguistics Computer Science Applications Linguistics and Language