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

Laundré, John W. 2014. Ecology. How large predators manage the cost of hunting. Science (New York, N.Y.) 346: 33–34.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kerrick, D. M., and J. A. Connolly. 2001. Metamorphic devolatilization of subducted marine sediments and the transport of volatiles into the Earth’s mantle. Nature 411: 293–296.

A journal article with 3 authors

Asphaug, Erik, Craig B. Agnor, and Quentin Williams. 2006. Hit-and-run planetary collisions. Nature 439: 155–160.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Araújo, Ricardo, Rui Castanhinha, Rui M. S. Martins, Octávio Mateus, Christophe Hendrickx, F. Beckmann, N. Schell, and L. C. Alves. 2013. Filling the gaps of dinosaur eggshell phylogeny: Late Jurassic Theropod clutch with embryos from Portugal. Scientific reports 3: 1924.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blevins, Robert D. 2015. Formulas for Dynamics, Acoustics and Vibration. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Wanninger, Andreas, ed. 2015. Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 5: Ecdysozoa III: Hexapoda. 1st ed. 2015. Vienna: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Renner, Renato. 2011. Quantum-Resilient Randomness Extraction. In Information Theoretic Security: 5th International Conference, ICITS 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 21-24, 2011. Proceedings, ed. Serge Fehr, 52–57. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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. 2014. Mutation Stops Worms From Getting Drunk. IFLScience. IFLScience. July 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. 2009. Public Transportation: New Starts Program Challenges and Preliminary Observations on Expediting Project Development. GAO-09-763T. 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

Roache, Roberta Savone. 2015. Missouri Public School Teachers’ Perception of Tenure. Doctoral dissertation, St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Kelly, David. 2001. Mudville Can Never Die. New York Times, April 15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Laundré 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kerrick and Connolly 2001; Laundré 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kerrick and Connolly 2001)
Three or more authors: (Araújo et al. 2013)

About the journal

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