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

Heavens, Nicholas G. 2011. Planetary science. Sunshine on a cloudy forecast. Science (New York, N.Y.) 333(6051), 1832–1833.

A journal article with 2 authors

Arthur, Ronan & Jared Diamond. 2011. Geography. Understanding tribal fates. Science (New York, N.Y.) 334(6058), 911–912.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schön, J. H., C. Kloc & B. Batlogg. 2000. Superconductivity at 52 K in hole-doped C60. Nature 408(6812), 549–552.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Shirey, Steven B., Jeffrey W. Harris, Stephen H. Richardson, Matthew J. Fouch, David E. James, Pierre Cartigny, Peter Deines & Fanus Viljoen. 2002. Diamond genesis, seismic structure, and evolution of the Kaapvaal-Zimbabwe craton. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297(5587), 1683–1686.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deacon, Mark, Andrew Derry & Dariush Mirfendereski. 2004. Inflation-indexed Securities. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Pickard, J. D., N. Akalan, C. Di Rocco, V. V. Dolenc, J. Lobo Antunes, J. J. A. Mooij, J. Schramm & M. Sindou (eds.). 2007. Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery (Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery). . Vol. 32. Vienna: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ghersetich, Ilaria, Benedetta Brazzini, Torello Lotti, Maria Pia De Padova & Antonella Tosti. 2006. Resorcinol. In Antonella Tosti, Pearl E. Grimes & Maria Pia De Padova (eds.), Color Atlas of Chemical Peels, 41–47. 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

Luntz, Stephen. 2014. “The Beast” Asteroid Tracked As It Passed Earth By. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/beast-asteroid-tracked-it-passed-earth/ (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. 2001. Federal Trust and Other Earmarked Funds: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions. 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

Azios, Michael. 2017. The College Experience of Stuttering: An Ethnographic Study. University of Louisiana 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

Kanter, James. 2016. European Leaders, Reeling, Meet to Weigh Fallout of U.S. Election. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heavens 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Arthur & Diamond 2011; Heavens 2011).

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

Two authors: (Arthur & Diamond 2011)
Three authors: (Schön, Kloc & Batlogg 2000)
4 or more authors: (Shirey et al. 2002)

About the journal

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