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

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

Jokipii, J. R. 2007. Planetary science. A local wiggle in the turbulent interstellar magnetic field. Science (New York, N.Y.) 316(5826), 839–840.

A journal article with 2 authors

Outten, C. E. & T. V. O’Halloran. 2001. Femtomolar sensitivity of metalloregulatory proteins controlling zinc homeostasis. Science (New York, N.Y.) 292(5526), 2488–2492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vais, Horia, J. Kevin Foskett & Don-On Daniel Mak. 2011. InsP3R channel gating altered by clustering? Nature 478(7368), E1-2; discussion E2-3.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gaester, Karen, Luiz A. M. Fonseca, Olinda Luiz, Tatiane Assone, Adriele Souza Fontes, Fernando Costa, Alberto J. S. Duarte & Jorge Casseb. 2014. Human papillomavirus infection in oral fluids of HIV-1-positive men: prevalence and risk factors. Scientific reports 4, 6592.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang, Zhen-Guo. 2016. Internal Combustion Processes of Liquid Rocket Engines. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte Ltd.

An edited book

Muller, Jean-Michel. 2010. Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic. (Ed.) Nicolas Brisebarre, Florent de Dinechin, Claude-Pierre Jeannerod, Vincent Lefèvre, Guillaume Melquiond, Nathalie Revol, Damien Stehlé & Serge Torres. 1st ed. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Cataldo, Andrea, Egidio De Benedetto & Giuseppe Cannazza. 2011. Quantitative and Qualitative Characterization of Liquid Materials. In Egidio De Benedetto & Giuseppe Cannazza (eds.), Broadband Reflectometry for Enhanced Diagnostics and Monitoring Applications (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering), 51–83. 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 Linguistics.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle. 2015. What The Hell Are These?? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/foal-hoof/ (30 October, 2018).

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. 2013. Aviation Safety: FAA Efforts Have Improved Safety, but Challenges Remain in Key Areas. 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

Santoso, Eko. 2012. Intellectual capital in Indonesia: The influence on financial performance of banking industry. University of Phoenix Doctoral dissertation.

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

Kelly, Kate & Ben Hubbard. 2017. As Saudis Open Up, Investors Tiptoe In. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jokipii 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Outten & O’Halloran 2001; Jokipii 2007).

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

Two authors: (Outten & O’Halloran 2001)
Three authors: (Vais, Foskett & Mak 2011)
4 or more authors: (Gaester et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Linguistics
ISSN (print)	0022-2267
ISSN (online)	1469-7742
Scope