How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Logic citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied Logic. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

G.D. Victora, Science & SciLifeLab Prize. Stop, go, and evolve, Science. 342 (2013) 1186.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Gunanathan, D. Milstein, Applications of acceptorless dehydrogenation and related transformations in chemical synthesis, Science. 341 (2013) 1229712.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Schweinfest, A.T. Paxton, M.W. Finnis, Bismuth embrittlement of copper is an atomic size effect, Nature. 432 (2004) 1008–1011.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Raman, O.F. Lange, P. Rossi, M. Tyka, X. Wang, J. Aramini, G. Liu, T.A. Ramelot, A. Eletsky, T. Szyperski, M.A. Kennedy, J. Prestegard, G.T. Montelione, D. Baker, NMR structure determination for larger proteins using backbone-only data, Science. 327 (2010) 1014–1018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. Hahn-Deinstrop, Dünnschicht-Chromatographie, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

J. Straus, ed., The Role of Law and Ethics in the Globalized Economy, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. Wang, D. Vitanovski, B. Georgescu, R. Ionasec, I. Voigt, S. Datta, C. Gruner, B. Herzog, P. Biaggi, G. Funka-Lea, D. Comaniciu, Automatic Detection and Quantification of Mitral Regurgitation on TTE with Application to Assist Mitral Clip Planning and Evaluation, in: K. Drechsler, M. Erdt, M.G. Linguraru, C. Oyarzun Laura, K. Sharma, R. Shekhar, S. Wesarg (Eds.), Clinical Image-Based Procedures. From Planning to Intervention: International Workshop, CLIP 2012, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2012, Nice, France, October 5, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 33–41.

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 Journal of Applied Logic.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, New Genetic Evidence Reveals Gaétan Dugas Was Not “Patient Zero” For HIV In North America, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-genetic-evidence-reveals-gaetan-dugas-was-not-patient-zero-hiv-north-america/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Air Traffic Control: Status of the Current Modernization Program and Planning for the Next Generation System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.V. Irving, Occupational Stress and Law Enforcement Officer Significant Relationships, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2017.

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

[1]

M.W. Walsh, Court Is Asked For Debt Relief By Puerto Rico, New York Times. (2017) A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Logic
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Log.
ISSN (print)	1570-8683
Scope	Applied Mathematics Logic

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