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

Ganz, Tomas. 2002. Immunology. Versatile defensins. Science (New York, N.Y.) 298(5595), 977–979.

A journal article with 2 authors

Noudoost, Behrad & Tirin Moore. 2011. Control of visual cortical signals by prefrontal dopamine. Nature 474(7351), 372–375.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dasen, Jeremy S., Jeh-Ping Liu & Thomas M. Jessell. 2003. Motor neuron columnar fate imposed by sequential phases of Hox-c activity. Nature 425(6961), 926–933.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Schulte-Pelkum, Vera, Gaspar Monsalve, Anne Sheehan, M. R. Pandey, Som Sapkota, Roger Bilham & Francis Wu. 2005. Imaging the Indian subcontinent beneath the Himalaya. Nature 435(7046), 1222–1225.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Potter, Lois. 2012. The Life of William Shakespeare. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Chiba, Shigeru, Éric Tanter, Erik Ernst & Robert Hirschfeld (eds.). 2015. Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development XII (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). . Vol. 8989. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Shand, Richard F. & Kathryn J. Leyva. 2007. Peptide and Protein Antibiotics from the Domain Archaea: Halocins and Sulfolobicins. In Margaret A. Riley & Milind A. Chavan (eds.), Bacteriocins: Ecology and Evolution, 93–109. 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

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2017. Scientists Spot Rare “Dragon-Skin” In Antarctica. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-see-rare-dragonskin-ice-in-antarctica/ (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. 2007. Digital Television Transition: Preliminary Information on Progress of the DTV Transition. 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

Wahid, Randa. 2012. Quality of life of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. California State University, Long Beach 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

Fisher, Linda. 2008. QUOTATION OF THE DAY. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ganz 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Ganz 2002; Noudoost & Moore 2011).

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

Two authors: (Noudoost & Moore 2011)
Three authors: (Dasen, Liu & Jessell 2003)
4 or more authors: (Schulte-Pelkum et al. 2005)

About the journal

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