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

Bilham, R. (2005). A flying start, then a slow slip. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5725), 1126–1127.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vivier, E., & Biron, C. A. (2002). Immunology. A pathogen receptor on natural killer cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5571), 1248–1249.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kerr, J. T., Kharouba, H. M., & Currie, D. J. (2007). The macroecological contribution to global change solutions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5831), 1581–1584.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Engelmann, J., Hanke, W., Mogdans, J., & Bleckmann, H. (2000). Hydrodynamic stimuli and the fish lateral line. Nature, 408(6808), 51–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stidwill, D., & Fletcher, R. (2010). Normal Binocular Vision. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Christianson, B., Crispo, B., Malcolm, J. A., & Roe, M. (Eds.). (2006). Security Protocols: 12th International Workshop, Cambridge, UK, April 26-28, 2004. Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 3957). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, L., Ye, Y., & Zhang, J. (2007). A Note on Equilibrium Pricing as Convex Optimization. In X. Deng & F. C. Graham (Eds.), Internet and Network Economics: Third International Workshop, WINE 2007, San Diego, CA, USA, December 12-14, 2007. Proceedings (pp. 7–16). 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 English for Academic Purposes.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2015, October 31). Meet Nature’s Weirdest, Freakiest Vampires. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-natures-weirdest-freakiest-vampires/

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. (1998). Status Information: FAA’s Year 2000 Business Continuity and Contingency Planning Efforts Are Ongoing (AIMD-99-40R). 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

Whitesides, V. J. (2017). The Large Ensemble/European Classical Music Paradigm and African American-Originated Dance-Musicking: A Dispositival Analysis of U.S. Secondary Music Education [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Isaac, M., & Chira, S. (2017, June 13). Potshot by Uber Director Prompts a Swift Backlash. New York Times, A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bilham, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Bilham, 2005; Vivier & Biron, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Vivier & Biron, 2002)
Three authors: (Kerr et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Engelmann et al., 2000)

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