How to format your references using the Journal of Pragmatics citation style

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

Miller, R.A., 2005. Biomedicine. The anti-aging sweepstakes: catalase runs for the ROSes. Science 308, 1875–1876.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chouard, T., Venema, L., 2015. Machine intelligence. Nature 521, 435.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bibby, T.S., Nield, J., Barber, J., 2001. Iron deficiency induces the formation of an antenna ring around trimeric photosystem I in cyanobacteria. Nature 412, 743–745.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Deschamps, T., Margueritat, J., Martinet, C., Mermet, A., Champagnon, B., 2014. Elastic moduli of permanently densified silica glasses. Sci. Rep. 4, 7193.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chong, Y.Y., 2004. Investment Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Chan, K., 2009. Practical CakePHP Projects. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Johansson, T., Donner, P., 2015. Strict Ocean Governance and Commercial Implications of Arctic Navigation, in: Donner, P. (Ed.), The Shipping Industry, Ocean Governance and Environmental Law in the Paradigm Shift: In Search of a Pragmatic Balance for the Arctic, SpringerBriefs in Law. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 67–73.

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 Pragmatics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Live Webcast of Expeditions 41/42 Crew to ISS [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/live-webcast-expeditions-4142-crew-iss/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1996. Intercollegiate Athletics: Status of Efforts to Promote Gender Equity (No. HEHS-97-10). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moshfegh, N., 2014. The multidimensional wellbeing assessment: Preliminary validation in an Iranian sample (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Cordes, K., 2015. Mountaineering’s Greatest Climb Unravels. New York Times SR5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Miller, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Chouard and Venema, 2015; Miller, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Chouard and Venema, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Deschamps et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Pragmatics
Abbreviation	J. Pragmat.
ISSN (print)	0378-2166
Scope	Language and Linguistics Artificial Intelligence Linguistics and Language