How to format your references using the Logica Universalis citation style

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

Wood, B.: Phillip Vallentine Tobias (1925-2012). Nature. 487, 40 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Shuster, D.L., Weiss, B.P.: Martian surface paleotemperatures from thermochronology of meteorites. Science. 309, 594–600 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Tang, R.-Y., Li, G., Yu, J.-Q.: Conformation-induced remote meta-C-H activation of amines. Nature. 507, 215–220 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cordaux, R., Deepa, E., Vishwanathan, H., Stoneking, M.: Genetic evidence for the demic diffusion of agriculture to India. Science. 304, 1125 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lindl, T., Steubing, R.: Atlas of Living Cell Cultures. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2013)

An edited book

Meyers, M.A.: Meyers’ Dynamic Radiology of the Abdomen: Normal and Pathologic Anatomy. Springer, New York, NY (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Karmakar, B., Mukhopadhayay, I.: An Efficient Partition-Repetition Approach in Clustering of Big Data. In: Pyne, S., Rao, B.L.S.P., and Rao, S.B. (eds.) Big Data Analytics: Methods and Applications. pp. 75–93. Springer India, New Delhi (2016)

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 Logica Universalis.

Blog post

Hale, T.: eBay Auction Winner Gets To Name New Moth Species

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: NASA: Long-Term Commitment to and Investment in Space Exploration Program Requires More Knowledge. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2006)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Fan, H.-T.: Design of delta operator based decision feedback equalizer for high-speed backplane data communication, (2012)

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

Koblin, J.: President’s First Days Keep Networks’ Ratings Strong, (2017)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Logica Universalis
Abbreviation	Log. Univers.
ISSN (print)	1661-8297
ISSN (online)	1661-8300
Scope	Applied Mathematics Logic