How to format your references using the Journal of Logic, Language and Information citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Logic, Language and Information. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Fisman, R. (2014). Health care policy. Straining emergency rooms by expanding health insurance. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6168), 252–253.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, D., & Seo, J. (2014). Three-dimensionally networked graphene hydroxide with giant pores and its application in supercapacitors. Scientific reports, 4, 7419.

A journal article with 3 authors

Beeli, G., Esslen, M., & Jäncke, L. (2005). Synaesthesia: when coloured sounds taste sweet. Nature, 434(7029), 38.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Austin, M. J., Muskett, P., Kahn, K., Feys, B. J., Jones, J. D. G., & Parker, J. E. (2002). Regulatory role of SGT1 in early R gene-mediated plant defenses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5562), 2077–2080.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van Deventer, D. R., Imai, K., & Mesler, M. (2013). Advanced Financial Risk Management, Second Edition. Solaris South Tower, Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Tambouris, E., Macintosh, A., & Glassey, O. (Eds.). (2010). Electronic Participation: Second IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 29 – September 2, 2010. Proceedings (Vol. 6229). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, Z.-S., Hseu, Z.-Y., & Tsai, C.-C. (2015). Entisols. In Z.-Y. Hseu & C.-C. Tsai (Eds.), The Soils of Taiwan (pp. 55–62). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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, Language and Information.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, November 11). Red Squirrels In The UK Are Infected By Human Leprosy. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/red-squirrels-in-the-uk-are-infected-by-human-leprosy/. Accessed 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. (1994). Space Projects: Astrophysics Facility Program Contains Cost and Technical Risks (No. NSIAD-94-80). 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

Briseno, A. R. (2015). Improving school performance through family involvement: A grant project (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Novick, S. M. (2014, February 9). A Bowl of Warmth and Comfort. New York Times, p. LI9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fisman 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Fisman 2014; Lee and Seo 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lee and Seo 2014)
Three or more authors: (Austin et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Logic, Language and Information
Abbreviation	J. Logic Lang. Inf.
ISSN (print)	0925-8531
ISSN (online)	1572-9583
Scope	Philosophy Computer Science (miscellaneous) Linguistics and Language