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

Hell, S. W. (2007). Far-field optical nanoscopy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5828), 1153–1158.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cosson, S., & Lutolf, M. P. (2014). Hydrogel microfluidics for the patterning of pluripotent stem cells. Scientific reports, 4, 4462.

A journal article with 3 authors

Karner, M. B., DeLong, E. F., & Karl, D. M. (2001). Archaeal dominance in the mesopelagic zone of the Pacific Ocean. Nature, 409(6819), 507–510.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Curie, C., Panaviene, Z., Loulergue, C., Dellaporta, S. L., Briat, J. F., & Walker, E. L. (2001). Maize yellow stripe1 encodes a membrane protein directly involved in Fe(III) uptake. Nature, 409(6818), 346–349.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoy, J. (2015). Forensic Radio Survey Techniques for Cell Site Analysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bryson, E. O., & Frost, E. A. M. (Eds.). (2012). Perioperative Addiction: Clinical Management of the Addicted Patient. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Carlsson, C., & Fullér, R. (2011). OWA Operators in Multiple Criteria Decisions. In R. Fullér (Ed.), Possibility for Decision: A Possibilistic Approach to Real Life Decisions (pp. 77–100). 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 Logic, Language and Information.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, October 5). “Talking” Cod Found To Have Regional Accents, And You Can Listen To Them Here. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/talking-cod-found-to-have-regional-accents-and-you-can-listen-to-them-here/. 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. (1999). Department of Education: Resolving Discrimination Complaints Has Improved With New Processing System (No. HEHS-99-47R). 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

HaMai, T. (2014). The “other” women: What about the experiences of women faculty of color in community colleges? (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

Kelly, D. (2001, April 15). Mudville Can Never Die. New York Times, p. 725.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hell 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Cosson and Lutolf 2014; Hell 2007).

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

Two authors: (Cosson and Lutolf 2014)
Three or more authors: (Curie et al. 2001)

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

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