How to format your references using the Current Issues in Language Planning citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Issues in Language Planning. 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

Kerr, R. A. (2000). PALEOCLIMATE: An Appealing Snowball Earth That’s Still Hard to Swallow. Science (New York, N.Y.), 287(5459), 1734–1736.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schiermeier, Q., & Tollefson, J. (2007). Climate change: a Nobel cause. Nature, 449(7164), 766–767.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bao, S., Chan, V. T., & Merzenich, M. M. (2001). Cortical remodelling induced by activity of ventral tegmental dopamine neurons. Nature, 412(6842), 79–83.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Mooley, K. P., Nakar, E., Hotokezaka, K., Hallinan, G., Corsi, A., Frail, D. A., Horesh, A., Murphy, T., Lenc, E., Kaplan, D. L., De, K., Dobie, D., Chandra, P., Deller, A., Gottlieb, O., Kasliwal, M. M., Kulkarni, S. R., Myers, S. T., Nissanke, S., … Singer, L. P. (2018). A mildly relativistic wide-angle outflow in the neutron-star merger event GW170817. Nature, 554(7691), 207–210.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Camman, C., Fiore, C., Livolsi, L., & Querro, P. (2017). Supply Chain Management and Business Performance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dörner, R., Göbel, S., Kickmeier-Rust, M., Masuch, M., & Zweig, K. (Eds.). (2016). Entertainment Computing and Serious Games: International GI-Dagstuhl Seminar 15283, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, July 5-10, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 9970). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sibila, O., Ferrer, M., & Torres, A. (2014). Corticosteroids as Adjunctive Treatment in Community-Acquired Pneumonia. In J.-L. Vincent (Ed.), Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2014 (pp. 53–63). Springer International Publishing.

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 Current Issues in Language Planning.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, September 2). It’s Time To Speak Up About Noise Pollution In The Oceans. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/its-time-to-speak-up-about-noise-pollution-in-the-oceans/

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. (2012). Mobile Device Location Data: Additional Federal Actions Could Help Protect Consumer Privacy (GAO-12-903). 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

Tse, J. (2009). An explication of the Hilbert basis theorem and its relation to school mathematics [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Leland, J. (2017, April 7). Dance Moves, Everywhere. New York Times, MB8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kerr, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kerr, 2000; Schiermeier & Tollefson, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Schiermeier & Tollefson, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Mooley et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Issues in Language Planning
Abbreviation	Curr. Issu. Lang. Plan.
ISSN (print)	1466-4208
ISSN (online)	1747-7506
Scope	Language and Linguistics Education Linguistics and Language