How to format your references using the John Benjamins Publishing Company - Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for John Benjamins Publishing Company - Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today. 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

Kormendy, J. 2000. ASTRONOMY: Enhanced: Monsters at the Heart of Galaxy Formation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 289(5484): 1484-85.

A journal article with 2 authors

Takeuchi, Jun K. & Bruneau, Benoit G. 2009. Directed transdifferentiation of mouse mesoderm to heart tissue by defined factors. Nature 459(7247): 708-11.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mansouri, Farshad A., Buckley, Mark J. & Tanaka, Keiji. 2007. Mnemonic function of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in conflict-induced behavioral adjustment. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318(5852): 987-90.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Galburt, Eric A., Grill, Stephan W., Wiedmann, Anna, Lubkowska, Lucyna, Choy, Jason, Nogales, Eva, Kashlev, Mikhail & Bustamante, Carlos. 2007. Backtracking determines the force sensitivity of RNAP II in a factor-dependent manner. Nature 446(7137): 820-23.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Askoolum, Ajay. 2007. System Building with APL + Win. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Steptoe, A. (ed). 2010. Handbook of Behavioral Medicine: Methods and Applications. 1st ed. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Coles, L. Stephen. 2010. The Ethical Basis for Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells in the Treatment of Aging. In The Future of Aging: Pathways to Human Life Extension, Gregory M. Fahy, Michael D. West, L. Stephen Coles & Steven B. Harris (eds), 63-86. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 - Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. Scientists Name Top 100 Unusual And Endangered Birds. IFLScience. IFLScience, 22 April 2014, <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-name-top-100-unusual-and-endangered-birds/> (30 October 2018).

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. 1981. Opportunities Still Exist To Better Use the Mint’s Data Processing Center. GGD-81-64. 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

Berkowitz, Adam Eric. 2015. Finding a Place for “Cacega Ayuwipi” within the Structure of American Indian Music and Dance Traditions. Doctoral dissertation, Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

Feeney, Kelly. 2007. Hidden Treasures Of the Food Industry. New York Times, December 9, 2007.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kormendy 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kormendy 2000; Takeuchi & Bruneau 2009).

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

Two authors: (Takeuchi & Bruneau 2009)
Three authors: (Mansouri, Buckley & Tanaka 2007)
4 or more authors: (Galburt et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	John Benjamins Publishing Company - Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
ISSN (print)	0166-0829
Scope