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

Widder, E. A. (2010). Bioluminescence in the ocean: origins of biological, chemical, and ecological diversity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5979), 704–708.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zanetti, M., & Mahadevan, N. R. (2012). Cancer. Immune surveillance from chromosomal chaos? Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6102), 1616–1617.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cram, D. S., Song, B., & Trounson, A. O. (2007). Genotyping of Rhesus SCNT pluripotent stem cell lines. Nature, 450(7169), E12-4.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tchernichovski, O., Mitra, P. P., Lints, T., & Nottebohm, F. (2001). Dynamics of the vocal imitation process: how a zebra finch learns its song. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5513), 2564–2569.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Evans, A. J. (2014). Markets for Managers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Pedrycz, W., & Chen, S.-M. (Eds.). (2013). Time Series Analysis, Modeling and Applications: A Computational Intelligence Perspective (Vol. 47). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Awrejcewicz, J. (2009). Thermoelastic Contact of Two Moving Layers with Friction and Wear. In J. Awrejcewicz (Ed.), Nonsmooth Dynamics of Contacting Thermoelastic Bodies (pp. 1–15). 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

Felton, J. (2017, May 17). If You’re Sleepy Strangers Will Find You Unattractive, Study Confirms. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/lack-of-sleep-really-does-make-you-less-attractive-study-suggests/

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. (1990). Forest Service Not Ready to Acquire a Nationwide Geographic Information System (T-IMTEC-90-10). 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

James, M. (2014). Numerical Study of Plateau-Rayleigh Instability [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois University.

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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, January 17). Young Stars Climb Rankings, Jolting Russia’s Dormant Men’s Game to Life. New York Times, B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Widder, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Widder, 2010; Zanetti & Mahadevan, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Zanetti & Mahadevan, 2012)
Three authors: (Cram et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Tchernichovski et al., 2001)

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

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