How to format your references using the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming citation style

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

[1]

S. Lloyd, Physics. Quantum procrastination, Science. 338 (2012) 621–622.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.Q. You, F. Nori, Atomic physics and quantum optics using superconducting circuits, Nature. 474 (2011) 589–597.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Cai, C.K. Dalal, M.B. Elowitz, Frequency-modulated nuclear localization bursts coordinate gene regulation, Nature. 455 (2008) 485–490.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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H.-C. Kuo, S. Hui, J. Choi, F.O. Asiegbu, J.P.T. Valkonen, Y.-H. Lee, Secret lifestyles of Neurospora crassa, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5135.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.A. Miller, Internet Technologies Handbook, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

D.A. Brubaker, Jizi and His Art in Contemporary China: Unification, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Dittrich, Organization Oriented Chemical Computing, in: M. Gheorghe, T. Hinze, G. Păun, G. Rozenberg, A. Salomaa (Eds.), Membrane Computing: 11th International Conference, CMC 2010, Jena, Germany, August 24-27, 2010. Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 18–18.

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 Logic and Algebraic Programming.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Ancient Viral DNA Necessary For Pluripotency in Embryonic Stem Cells, IFLScience. (2014).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Drug Education: School-Based Programs Seen as Useful but Impact Unknown, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

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C.J. Graeter, Longitudinal Study of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Subjects in the American Clinical Trial of Enzyme Potentiated Desensitization, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2012.

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

[1]

M.M. Grynbaum, A Network vs. the President, New York Times. (2017) B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming
Abbreviation	J. Log. Algebr. Program.
ISSN (print)	1567-8326
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Software Logic Theoretical Computer Science