How to format your references using the Journal of English for Academic Purposes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of English for Academic Purposes. 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

Moltz, J. C. (2011). Technology: Asia’s space race. Nature, 480(7376), 171–173.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krieger, M. J. B., & Ross, K. G. (2002). Identification of a major gene regulating complex social behavior. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5553), 328–332.

A journal article with 3 authors

Haince, J.-F., Rouleau, M., & Poirier, G. G. (2006). Transcription. Gene expression needs a break to unwind before carrying on. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5781), 1752–1753.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mahendiran, K., Elie, C., Nebel, J.-C., Ryan, A., & Pierscionek, B. K. (2014). Primary sequence contribution to the optical function of the eye lens. Scientific Reports, 4, 5195.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Menk, F. W., & Waters, C. L. (2013). Magnetoseismology. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Romano, L., Fulciniti, S., & Silva, M. (Eds.). (2010). Anatomia TC multidetettore — Body. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Akerson, V. L., Weiland, I., & Fouad, K. E. (2015). Children’s Ideas About Life Science Concepts. In K. Cabe Trundle & M. Saçkes (Eds.), Research in Early Childhood Science Education (pp. 99–123). 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 Journal of English for Academic Purposes.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, May 4). Scientists Believe They Have Explained The Great Flu Outbreak Of 1918. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-believe-they-have-explained-great-flu-outbreak-1918/

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. (1993). Developing and Using Questionnaires (PEMD-10.1.7). 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

Martinez, K. (2009). Personal narrative: The struggles and limitations of immigration experienced by an El Salvadorian refugee [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

MacFARQUHAR, N., & Kramer, A. E. (2015, September 17). Putin Sees Path to Diplomacy Through Syria. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moltz, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Krieger & Ross, 2002; Moltz, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Krieger & Ross, 2002)
Three authors: (Haince et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Mahendiran et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of English for Academic Purposes
Abbreviation	J. Engl. Acad. Purp.
ISSN (print)	1475-1585
Scope	Language and Linguistics Education Linguistics and Language