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

Kirshner, R. P. (2003). Throwing light on dark energy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5627), 1914–1918.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dutcher, J. R., & Ediger, M. D. (2008). Materials science. Glass surfaces not so glassy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5863), 577–578.

A journal article with 3 authors

Parens, E., Johnston, J., & Moses, J. (2008). Ethics. Do we need “synthetic bioethics”? Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5895), 1449.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rocha, D. F. O., Wouters, F. C., Machado, G., & Marsaioli, A. J. (2013). First biosynthetic pathway of 1-hepten-3-one in Iporangaia pustulosa (Opiliones). Scientific Reports, 3, 3156.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Feldkamp, F. L., & Whalen, R. C. (2014). Financial Stability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lenarz, T., & Wriggers, P. (Eds.). (2015). Biomedical Technology (Vol. 74). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Malinao, J. A., Tiu, K. B., Lozano, L. M. O., Pascua, S. M., Chua, R. B., Magboo, M. S. A., & Caro, J. D. L. (2013). A Metric for User Requirements Traceability in Sequence, Class Diagrams, and Lines-Of-Code via Robustness Diagrams. In S.-Y. Nishizaki, M. Numao, J. Caro, & M. T. Suarez (Eds.), Theory and Practice of Computation: 2nd Workshop on Computation: Theory and Practice, Manila, The Philippines, September 2012, Proceedings (pp. 50–63). Springer Japan.

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

Hamilton, K. (2016, September 7). Swine Flu Doesn’t Just Pass From Pigs To People – It Goes Both Ways. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/swine-flu-doesnt-just-pass-from-pigs-to-people-it-goes-both-ways/

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. (1993). Aircraft Certification: FAA Can Better Meet Challenges Posed by Advances in Aircraft Technologies (T-RCED-94-53). 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

Sutton, D. L. (2010). Preparing instrumental teachers: A resource for volunteer, lay music teachers in Salvation Army churches [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

Williams, J. (2016, September 18). If It Ain’t Broke. New York Times, BR6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kirshner, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Dutcher & Ediger, 2008; Kirshner, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Dutcher & Ediger, 2008)
Three authors: (Parens et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Rocha et al., 2013)

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