How to format your references using the John Benjamins Publishing Company - Iconicity in Language and Literature citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for John Benjamins Publishing Company - Iconicity in Language and Literature. 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

Faist, J. 2000. APPLIED PHYSICS: Smaller, Faster Midinfrared Lasers. Science (New York, N.Y.) 290: 1713–14.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hegerl, G.C. and Bindoff, N.L. 2005. Ocean Science. Warming the World’s Oceans. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309: 254–55.

A journal article with 3 authors

Villegas, C.E.P., Mendonça, P.B. and Rocha, A.R. 2014. Optical Spectrum of Bottom-up Graphene Nanoribbons: Towards Efficient Atom-Thick Excitonic Solar Cells. Scientific Reports 4: 6579.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Trauger, J.W., Kohli, R.M., Mootz, H.D., Marahiel, M.A. and Walsh, C.T. 2000. Peptide Cyclization Catalysed by the Thioesterase Domain of Tyrocidine Synthetase. Nature 407: 215–18.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Korhonen, J., Savolainen, T. and Soininen, J. 2013. Deploying IPv6 in 3GPP Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Freeden, W., Nashed, M.Z. and Sonar, T., eds. 2010. Handbook of Geomathematics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Saric, M. 2014. Echocardiography in Pericardial Disease. In Management of Pericardial Disease, edited by E. Herzog, 49–70. Cham: 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 John Benjamins Publishing Company - Iconicity in Language and Literature.

Blog post

Evans, K. 2017. To Save Its Birds, New Zealand Plans To Kill All Its Rodents. IFLScience. IFLScience. May 12, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/to-save-its-birds-new-zealand-plans-to-kill-all-its-rodents/.

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. 1995. Medicare Transaction System: Strengthened Management and Sound Development Approach Critical to Success. T-AIMD-96-12. Washington, DC: 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

Lauper, A.R. 2009. Effects of Leadership Training and Networking Opportunities on Professional Advancement: A Quantitative Study. Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Kinsley, M. 2017. Trump the Transparent. New York Times, June 17, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Faist 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Faist 2000; Hegerl and Bindoff 2005).

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

Two authors: (Hegerl and Bindoff 2005)
Three authors: (Villegas, Mendonça, and Rocha 2014)
4 or more authors: (Trauger et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	John Benjamins Publishing Company - Iconicity in Language and Literature
ISSN (print)	1873-5037
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