How to format your references using the Journal of Computer Languages citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computer Languages. 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

[1]

C. Seife, MATERIALS SCIENCE: Long-Wavelength Lasers Sniff Out New Uses, Science 290 (2000) 916–917.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Meyer, T. Glatzel, Applied physics. Novel probes for molecular electronics, Science 324 (2009) 1397–1398.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B.Z. Stanger, A.J. Tanaka, D.A. Melton, Organ size is limited by the number of embryonic progenitor cells in the pancreas but not the liver, Nature 445 (2007) 886–891.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.T. Hung, E.A. Shakhnovich, E. Pierson, J.J. Mekalanos, Small-molecule inhibitor of Vibrio cholerae virulence and intestinal colonization, Science 310 (2005) 670–674.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, MAK- und BAT-Werte-Liste 2014, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

X. Lai, D. Gu, B. Jin, Y. Wang, H. Li, eds., Forensics in Telecommunications, Information, and Multimedia: Third International ICST Conference, e-Forensics 2010, Shanghai, China, November 11-12, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Haddad, M. Gregory, N. Wickramasinghe, Business Value of IT in Healthcare, in: N. Wickramasinghe, L. Al-Hakim, C. Gonzalez, J. Tan (Eds.), Lean Thinking for Healthcare, Springer, New York, NY, 2014: pp. 55–81.

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 Computer Languages.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Cuba Has A Lung Cancer Vaccine, And Now It Could Be Coming To The USA, IFLScience (2015).

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, Early Childhood Programs: Many Poor Children and Strained Resources Challenge Head Start, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.A. Stewart, Principals’ post-observation feedback and its influence on teacher professional growth at two Southern California Catholic high schools, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2013.

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]

J. Soble, Airbag Crisis Sends Takata To Its Demise, New York Times (2017) B1.

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 Computer Languages
ISSN (print)	2590-1184
Scope