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

Dagotto, Elbio. 2005. Complexity in strongly correlated electronic systems. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309: 257–262.

A journal article with 2 authors

Su, Fei, and Ping Xu. 2014. Genomic analysis of thermophilic Bacillus coagulans strains: efficient producers for platform bio-chemicals. Scientific reports 4: 3926.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wisse, Brent E., Francis Kim, and Michael W. Schwartz. 2007. Physiology. An integrative view of obesity. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318: 928–929.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yao, Yuxiang, Hongzhi Tang, Huixue Ren, Hao Yu, Lijuan Wang, Wei Zhang, Edward J. Behrman, and Ping Xu. 2013. Iron(II)-dependent dioxygenase and N-formylamide deformylase catalyze the reactions from 5-hydroxy-2-pyridone to maleamate. Scientific reports 3: 3235.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li, Flora M., Arokia Nathan, Yiliang Wu, and Beng S. Ong. 2011. Organic Thin Film Transistor Integration. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Voland, Eckart, and Wulf Schiefenhövel, ed. 2009. The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior. The Frontiers Collection. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Scherer, Günther G. 2013. Fuel Cell Types and Their Electrochemistry. In Fuel Cells: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, ed. Klaus-Dieter Kreuer, 97–119. New York, NY: 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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. What Will Earth Look Like 100 Million Years From Now? IFLScience. IFLScience. June 12.

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. 1990. GAO Electronic Document Request Service. 142758. 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

Spratley, Amanda Marie. 2010. Connecting Law and Creativity: The Role of Lawyers in Supporting Creative and Innovative Economic Development. Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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. Beachfront Cafe. New York Times, September 9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dagotto 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Dagotto 2005; Su and Xu 2014).

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

Two authors: (Su and Xu 2014)
Three or more authors: (Yao et al. 2013)

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