How to format your references using the Lingua Sinica citation style

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

Chambers, John. 2014. Planetary science. Forming terrestrial planets. Science (New York, N.Y.) 344: 479–480.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chhangani, Deepak, and Amit Mishra. 2013. Mahogunin ring finger-1 (MGRN1) suppresses chaperone-associated misfolded protein aggregation and toxicity. Scientific reports 3: 1972.

A journal article with 3 authors

Karnath, Hans-Otto, Svenja Borchers, and Marc Himmelbach. 2010. Comment on “Movement intention after parietal cortex stimulation in humans.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 327: 1200; author reply 1200.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Seiffert, Erik R., Elwyn L. Simons, William C. Clyde, James B. Rossie, Yousry Attia, Thomas M. Bown, Prithijit Chatrath, and Mark E. Mathison. 2005. Basal anthropoids from Egypt and the antiquity of Africa’s higher primate radiation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 310: 300–304.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bender, Herbert F. 2002. Das Gefahrstoffbuch. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Barceló, Pablo, and Reinhard Pichler, ed. 2012. Datalog in Academia and Industry: Second International Workshop, Datalog 2.0, Vienna, Austria, September 11-13, 2012. Proceedings. Vol. 7494. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Malik, Tanu, Ashish Gehani, Dawood Tariq, and Fareed Zaffar. 2013. Sketching Distributed Data Provenance. In Data Provenance and Data Management in eScience, ed. Qing Liu, Quan Bai, Stephen Giugni, Darrell Williamson, and John Taylor, 85–107. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Lingua Sinica.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. Methane Found in Martian Meteorites. IFLScience. IFLScience. June 16.

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. 2010. Forest Service Research and Development: Improvements in Delivery of Research Results Can Help Ensure That Benefits of Research Are Realized. GAO-11-12. Washington, DC: 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

Roy Chowdhury, Taniya. 2012. Tracking Carbon Flow during Methane Oxidation into Methanotrophs Using 13C-PLFA Labeling in Pulsing Freshwater Wetlands. Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

Kenigsberg, Ben. 2016. Review: ‘Finding Babel’ Retraces a Celebrated Grandfather’s Footsteps. New York Times, October 27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chambers 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Chhangani and Mishra 2013; Chambers 2014).

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

Two authors: (Chhangani and Mishra 2013)
Three or more authors: (Seiffert et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Lingua Sinica
Abbreviation	Lingua Sin.
ISSN (online)	2197-6678
Scope