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

Crow, J. F. (2001). The beanbag lives on. Nature, 409(6822), 771.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, Z., & Zhao, Y. (2006). MATERIALS SCIENCE: High-Pressure Microscopy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5777), 1149–1150.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schibler, U., Ripperger, J. A., & Brown, S. A. (2001). Circadian rhythms. Chronobiology--reducing time. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5529), 437–438.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Anest, V., Hanson, J. L., Cogswell, P. C., Steinbrecher, K. A., Strahl, B. D., & Baldwin, A. S. (2003). A nucleosomal function for IkappaB kinase-alpha in NF-kappaB-dependent gene expression. Nature, 423(6940), 659–663.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bauldry, W. C. (2009). Introduction to Real Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Allen, R. B., & Lee, W. G. (Eds.). (2006). Biological Invasions in New Zealand (Vol. 186). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mhlanga, B. (2016). The Return of the Local: Community Radio as Dialogic and Participatory. In A. Salawu & M. B. Chibita (Eds.), Indigenous Language Media, Language Politics and Democracy in Africa (pp. 87–112). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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

Andrew, D. (2015, April 22). What Would The Earth Look Like If All The Ice Melted? 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. (1998). Deferred Maintenance Reporting: Challenges to Implementation (AIMD-98-42). 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

Bradford, A. (2015). Internationalization Policy at the Genba: Exploring the Implementation of Social Science English-Taught Undergraduate Degree Programs in Three Japanese Universities [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Wagner, J. (2017, June 10). Amid Defensive Woes, Mets Try to Avoid Fumbling an Anticipated Call-Up. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crow, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Crow, 2001; Wang & Zhao, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Wang & Zhao, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Anest et al., 2003)

About the journal

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