How to format your references using the Journal of Memory and Language citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Memory and Language. 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

Benton, R. (2009). Eppendorf winner. Evolution and revolution in odor detection. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5951), 382–383.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lessard, J., & Sauvageau, G. (2003). Bmi-1 determines the proliferative capacity of normal and leukaemic stem cells. Nature, 423(6937), 255–260.

A journal article with 3 authors

Achlioptas, D., Naor, A., & Peres, Y. (2005). Rigorous location of phase transitions in hard optimization problems. Nature, 435(7043), 759–764.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Silva, J., Chambers, I., Pollard, S., & Smith, A. (2006). Nanog promotes transfer of pluripotency after cell fusion. Nature, 441(7096), 997–1001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Buchstaller, I. (2013). Quotatives. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Spence, R. (2013). Rapid Serial Visual Presentation: Design for Cognition (M. Witkowski, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Geitmann, A. (2011). Generating a Cellular Protuberance: Mechanics of Tip Growth. In P. Wojtaszek (Ed.), Mechanical Integration of Plant Cells and Plants (pp. 117–132). 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 Memory and Language.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 17). Canary In The Gold King Mine: Legacy Of Abandoned Mines Means More Spills. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/canary-gold-king-mine-legacy-abandoned-mines-means-more-spills/

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. (1989). ADP Modernization: IRS’ Automated Examination System--Troubled Past, Uncertain Future (IMTEC-89-54). 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

Fresolone, C. (2012). The pedagogical use of Gerald Near’s “Chantworks” [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by. (2006, May 13). Arts, Briefly; A New Festival in Moscow. New York Times, B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benton, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Benton, 2009; Lessard & Sauvageau, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Lessard & Sauvageau, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Silva et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Memory and Language
Abbreviation	J. Mem. Lang.
ISSN (print)	0749-596X
Scope	Language and Linguistics Artificial Intelligence Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Linguistics and Language