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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Petronis, A. (2010). Epigenetics as a unifying principle in the aetiology of complex traits and diseases. Nature, 465(7299), 721–727.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, S.-W., & Liu, R.-B. (2014). Faraday rotation echo spectroscopy and detection of quantum fluctuations. Scientific Reports, 4, 4695.

A journal article with 3 authors

Piras, V., Tomita, M., & Selvarajoo, K. (2014). Transcriptome-wide variability in single embryonic development cells. Scientific Reports, 4, 7137.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Shaffer, P. L., Goehring, A., Shankaranarayanan, A., & Gouaux, E. (2009). Structure and mechanism of a Na+-independent amino acid transporter. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5943), 1010–1014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Golding, P. (2005). Next Generation Wireless Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Klein, F. (2008). The Theory of the Top. Volume 1: Introduction to the Kinematics and Kinetics of the Top (A. Sommerfeld, Ed.). Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Compagna, D., Marquardt, M., & Boblan, I. (2016). Introducing a Methodological Approach to Evaluate HRI from a Genuine Sociological Point of View. In J. T. K. V. Koh, B. J. Dunstan, D. Silvera-Tawil, & M. Velonaki (Eds.), Cultural Robotics: First International Workshop, CR 2015, Held as Part of IEEE RO-MAN 2015, Kobe, Japan, August 31, 2015. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 55–64). 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

Carpineti, A. (2016, September 22). Schrödinger’s Cat Experiment Lets Scientists Watch Molecules In Two States At Once. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/-schrdingers-cat-experiment-lets-scientists-watch-molecules-in-two-states-at-once/

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. (1994). [Comments on Use of Frequent Flyer Credits] (B-256481). 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

Umstead, H. G. (2017). Determining the Value of Outdoor Adventure Education for Educational Leaders [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2016, April 12). Puerto Rico Aims to Appease Congress With a New Proposal on Its Debt. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Petronis, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Chen & Liu, 2014; Petronis, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Chen & Liu, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Shaffer et al., 2009)

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