How to format your references using the Journal of East Asian Linguistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of East Asian Linguistics. 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

Westerfeld, S. 2000. All is not lost. Nature 406: 241.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin, Charles R., and Lane A. Baker. 2005. Materials science. Expanding the molecular electronics toolbox. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309: 67–68.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palm, Noah W., Rachel K. Rosenstein, and Ruslan Medzhitov. 2012. Allergic host defences. Nature 484: 465–472.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kobayashi, Koichi S., Mathias Chamaillard, Yasunori Ogura, Octavian Henegariu, Naohiro Inohara, Gabriel Nuñez, and Richard A. Flavell. 2005. Nod2-dependent regulation of innate and adaptive immunity in the intestinal tract. Science (New York, N.Y.) 307: 731–734.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lane, Christina. 2011. Magnolia. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Medin, Jeffrey, and Daniel Fowler, ed. 2011. Experimental and Applied Immunotherapy. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Hühnerfuss, Heinrich, Frank Hoffmann, Johannes Simon-Kutscher, Werner Alpers, and Martin Gade. 2006. New chemical insights into the structure and morphology of sea slicks and their geophysical interpretations. In Marine Surface Films: Chemical Characteristics, Influence on Air-Sea Interactions and Remote Sensing, ed. Martin Gade, Heinrich Hühnerfuss, and Gerald M. Korenowski, 37–44. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 East Asian Linguistics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2015. Astronomers Spy Most Distant Known Object In Our Solar System. IFLScience. IFLScience. November 11.

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. 1997. Higher Education: Verification Helps Prevent Student Aid Payments to Ineligible Noncitizens. HEHS-97-153. 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

Kolakoski, Mike. 2013. The appeal to be heard and the trope of listening in classic film and African American literature. Doctoral dissertation, Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

Hirsch, George A. 2011. The Humanity of the Long-Distance Runner. New York Times, April 24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Westerfeld 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Westerfeld 2000; Martin and Baker 2005).

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

Two authors: (Martin and Baker 2005)
Three or more authors: (Kobayashi et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of East Asian Linguistics
Abbreviation	J. East Asian Ling.
ISSN (print)	0925-8558
ISSN (online)	1572-8560
Scope	Language and Linguistics History and Philosophy of Science Linguistics and Language