How to format your references using the Language and Intercultural Communication citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Language and Intercultural Communication. 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

Kleindienst, T. E. (2009). Chemistry. Epoxying isoprene chemistry. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5941), 687–688.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ernest, S. K., & Brown, J. H. (2001). Delayed compensation for missing keystone species by colonization. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5514), 101–104.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, S., Zhang, Y. E., & Long, M. (2010). New genes in Drosophila quickly become essential. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6011), 1682–1685.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Takada, K., Sakurai, H., Takayama-Muromachi, E., Izumi, F., Dilanian, R. A., & Sasaki, T. (2003). Superconductivity in two-dimensional CoO2 layers. Nature, 422(6927), 53–55.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Camman, C., Fiore, C., Livolsi, L., & Querro, P. (2017). Supply Chain Management and Business Performance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Aguayo-Torres, M. C., Gómez, G., & Poncela, J. (Eds.). (2015). Wired/Wireless Internet Communications: 13th International Conference, WWIC 2015, Malaga, Spain, May 25-27, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (1st ed. 2015, Vol. 9071). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Blum, M. E. (2010). The Historical Logic of Non-Verbal Expression in Everyday Life and the Arts: The Perceptual Foundation of the Precept. In P. T. Coohill (Ed.), Art Inspiring Transmutations of Life (pp. 39–69). Springer Netherlands.

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 Language and Intercultural Communication.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2017, March 23). Citizen Scientists Bring Astronomical History To Light. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/citizens-scientists-bring-astronomical-history-to-light/

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. (2004). Public Community Colleges and Technical Schools: Most Schools Use Both Credit and Noncredit Programs for Workforce Development (GAO-05-4). 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

Garapati, S. H. (2013). Analytical and Numerical Modeling of Assembly Procedures of Steel Fulcra of Bascule Bridges [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Erlanger, S. (2017, June 19). ‘Brexit’ Talks Open in Brussels, With a Mountain for Britain and Europe to Climb. New York Times, A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kleindienst, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Ernest & Brown, 2001; Kleindienst, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Ernest & Brown, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Takada et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Language and Intercultural Communication
Abbreviation	Lang. Intercult. Commun.
ISSN (print)	1470-8477
ISSN (online)	1747-759X
Scope	Linguistics and Language Communication