How to format your references using the Journal of Second Language Writing citation style

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

Hirsch, J. E. (2002). Superconductivity. The true colors of cuprates. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5563), 2226–2227.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brovkin, V., & Claussen, M. (2008). Comment on “Climate-driven ecosystem succession in the Sahara: the past 6000 years.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5906), 1326; author reply 1326.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, L. J., Kuzmich, A., & Dogariu, A. (2000). Gain-assisted superluminal light propagation. Nature, 406(6793), 277–279.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tanaka, J.-I., Horiike, Y., Matsuzaki, M., Miyazaki, T., Ellis-Davies, G. C. R., & Kasai, H. (2008). Protein synthesis and neurotrophin-dependent structural plasticity of single dendritic spines. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5870), 1683–1687.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lakshminarayana, B. (2007). Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer of Turbomachinery. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Koundouri, P., & Papandreou, N. A. (Eds.). (2014). Water Resources Management Sustaining Socio-Economic Welfare: The Implementation of the European Water Framework Directive in Asopos River Basin in Greece (Vol. 7). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Prassas, E. S., & Roess, R. P. (2013). The Costs of Transportation for Alternative Economic Analysis. In R. P. Roess (Ed.), Engineering Economics and Finance for Transportation Infrastructure (pp. 73–111). 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 Second Language Writing.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, April 23). New Antiviral Shows Potential Against Ebola. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1978). Establishment of a Central Focal Point for Telecommunications Matters (B-131935). 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

Mai, J. (2017). College Application Behaviors: Factors Impacting the College Choices of High School Seniors [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Crow, K. (2003, January 19). ... and Making a Precinct True Blue for the Viewers. New York Times, 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hirsch, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Brovkin & Claussen, 2008; Hirsch, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Brovkin & Claussen, 2008)
Three authors: (Wang et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Tanaka et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Second Language Writing
Abbreviation	J. Second Lang. Writ.
ISSN (print)	1060-3743
Scope	Language and Linguistics Education Linguistics and Language