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

Madden, J.D.W.: Materials science. Stiffer than steel. Science. 323, 1571–1572 (2009)

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith, L., Dunn, B.: Batteries. Opening the window for aqueous electrolytes. Science. 350, 918 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Velikov, V., Borick, S., Angell, C.A.: The glass transition of water, based on hyperquenching experiments. Science. 294, 2335–2338 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sinnarajah, S., Dessauer, C.W., Srikumar, D., Chen, J., Yuen, J., Yilma, S., Dennis, J.C., Morrison, E.E., Vodyanoy, V., Kehrl, J.H.: RGS2 regulates signal transduction in olfactory neurons by attenuating activation of adenylyl cyclase III. Nature. 409, 1051–1055 (2001)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Straus, S.E., Sackett, D.L.: Mentorship in Academic Medicine. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2013)

An edited book

Xu, J.: Fuzzy-Like Multiple Objective Decision Making. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Kalra, M.K.: MDCT Radiation Dose: Recent Advances. In: Kalra, M.K., Saini, S., and Rubin, G.D. (eds.) MDCT: From Protocols to Practice. pp. 31–41. Springer, Milano (2008)

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

Andrew, E.: The Eye-Opening Parasite That Can Get In Through Your Contact Lens, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/eye-opening-parasite-can-get-through-your-contact-lens/

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: The President’s Second Special Message for FY 1983. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1983)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Adams, C.A.: Impact of water management and agronomic practices on the performance of insecticide seed treatments against rice water weevil, Lissorhoptrus oryzophilus Kuschel, in Mississippi rice, (2013)

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

Oestreich, J.R.: A Man on a Mission, and Then Another, (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