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

Barabási, A.-L. (2005). Sociology. Network theory--the emergence of the creative enterprise. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5722), 639–641.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reipurth, B., & Mikkola, S. (2012). Formation of the widest binary stars from dynamical unfolding of triple systems. Nature, 492(7428), 221–224.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang, J.-W., Zhuang, X., & Rabczuk, T. (2013). Orientation dependent thermal conductance in single-layer MoS2. Scientific Reports, 3, 2209.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lu, X., Borchers, A. G. M., Jolicoeur, C., Rayburn, H., Baker, J. C., & Tessier-Lavigne, M. (2004). PTK7/CCK-4 is a novel regulator of planar cell polarity in vertebrates. Nature, 430(6995), 93–98.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prud’Homme, R. (2014). Flows and Chemical Reactions in Heterogeneous Mixtures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Raoprasert, T. (2010). Designing an Efficient Management System: Modeling of Convergence Factors Exemplified by the Case of Japanese Businesses in Thailand (S. M. N. Islam, Ed.). Physica-Verlag HD.

A chapter in an edited book

Banavar, R. N., & Sankaranarayanan, V. (2006). Alternative Control Strategies for the NI. In V. Sankaranarayanan (Ed.), Switched Finite Time Control of a Class of Underactuated Systems (pp. 51–60). 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 Current Issues in Language Planning.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, May 6). Antibody Injections Could Be Stepping Stone To HIV Vaccine. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/antibody-injections-could-be-stepping-stone-hiv-vaccine/

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. (1972). Cost-Benefit Analysis Used in Support of the Space Shuttle Program (B-173677). 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

Sweeney, D. L. (2009). Learning in human -dolphin interactions at zoological facilities [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego.

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

Otis, J. (2016, December 5). Positive Outlook in the Face of Cancer and Grief. New York Times, A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barabási, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Barabási, 2005; Reipurth & Mikkola, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Reipurth & Mikkola, 2012)
Three authors: (Jiang et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Lu et al., 2004)

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