How to format your references using the Language Awareness citation style

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

Smaglik, P. (2003). Golden handcuffs. Nature, 424(6946), 351.

A journal article with 2 authors

Elderfield, H., & Rickaby, R. E. (2000). Oceanic Cd/P ratio and nutrient utilization in the glacial Southern Ocean. Nature, 405(6784), 305–310.

A journal article with 3 authors

LaRiviere, F. J., Wolfson, A. D., & Uhlenbeck, O. C. (2001). Uniform binding of aminoacyl-tRNAs to elongation factor Tu by thermodynamic compensation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5540), 165–168.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Favier, F., Walter, E. C., Zach, M. P., Benter, T., & Penner, R. M. (2001). Hydrogen sensors and switches from electrodeposited palladium mesowire arrays. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5538), 2227–2231.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hao, L., & Lawrence, J. (2006). Laser Surface Treatment of Bio-Implant Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Glaubrecht, M. (Ed.). (2010). Evolution in Action: Case studies in Adaptive Radiation, Speciation and the Origin of Biodiversity. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bravetti, M., Latella, D., Loreti, M., Massink, M., & Zavattaro, G. (2009). Combining Timed Coordination Primitives and Probabilistic Tuple Spaces. In C. Kaklamanis & F. Nielson (Eds.), Trustworthy Global Computing: 4th International Symposium, TGC 2008, Barcelona, Spain, November 3-4, 2008, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 52–68). 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 Language Awareness.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, October 16). The Chemistry of Pizza. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/chemistry-pizza/

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. (1980). Proposed Revisions to Procurement Regulations Covering ADP Equipment and Services (B-199089). 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

Anderson, C. W. (2009). Breaking journalism down: Work, authority, and networking local news, 1997–2009 [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University.

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

Feeney, K. (2008, August 24). Finding Farms To Share In. New York Times, NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Elderfield & Rickaby, 2000; Smaglik, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Elderfield & Rickaby, 2000)
Three authors: (LaRiviere et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Favier et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Language Awareness
ISSN (print)	0965-8416
ISSN (online)	1747-7565
Scope	Language and Linguistics Education Linguistics and Language