How to format your references using the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in 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	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

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A.J. Calvert, Seismic reflection imaging of two megathrust shear zones in the northern Cascadia subduction zone, Nature. 428 (2004) 163–167.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.W. Vaughn, R. Martienssen, It’s a small RNA world, after all, Science. 309 (2005) 1525–1526.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K. Miyamoto, S. Miyake, T. Yamamura, A synthetic glycolipid prevents autoimmune encephalomyelitis by inducing TH2 bias of natural killer T cells, Nature. 413 (2001) 531–534.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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S.C. Agalarov, P.A. Sakharov, D.K. Fattakhova, E.A. Sogorin, A.S. Spirin, Internal translation initiation and eIF4F/ATP-independent scanning of mRNA by eukaryotic ribosomal particles, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4438.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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R.A. Brown, Extreme Tissue Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

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M. Borcsa, P. Rober, eds., Research Perspectives in Couple Therapy: Discursive Qualitative Methods, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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E.J. Kent, Tyrannical Beasts: Male Witchcraft in Early Modern English Culture, in: L. Kounine, M. Ostling (Eds.), Emotions in the History of Witchcraft, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016: pp. 77–94.

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 Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming.

Blog post

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D. Andrew, How To Make Galaxy Themed Easter Eggs, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-make-stunning-galaxy-themed-easter-eggs/ (accessed October 30, 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

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Government Accountability Office, High Speed Passenger Rail: Future Development Will Depend on Addressing Financial and Other Challenges and Establishing a Clear Federal Role, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.

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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G. Remon, Not Here Not Now, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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

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A.L. Baker, J.C. McKINLEY Jr, Bullet in Bronx Takes a Detour, Turning Deadly, New York Times. (2017) A1.

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 Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming
ISSN (print)	2352-2208
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Cultural Studies Political Science and International Relations