How to format your references using the Neophilologus citation style

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

Hilton, D. (2015). Donald Metcalf (1929-2014). Nature, 517(7536), 554.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anversa, P., & Nadal-Ginard, B. (2002). Myocyte renewal and ventricular remodelling. Nature, 415(6868), 240–243.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gillespie, A. R., Montgomery, D. R., & Mushkin, A. (2005). Planetary science: are there active glaciers on Mars? Nature, 438(7069), E9-10; discussion E10.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Louail, T., Lenormand, M., Cantu Ros, O. G., Picornell, M., Herranz, R., Frias-Martinez, E., et al. (2014). From mobile phone data to the spatial structure of cities. Scientific reports, 4, 5276.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sullivan, D. M. (2012). Quantum Mechanics for Electrical Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Xu, Y., Xu, D., & Liang, J. (Eds.). (2007). Computational Methods for Protein Structure Prediction and Modeling: Volume 2: Structure Prediction. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Baghdasaryan, G., & Mikilyan, M. (2016). Control and Generation of Resonant Vibrations of the Parametric Type. In M. Mikilyan (Ed.), Effects of Magnetoelastic Interactions in Conductive Plates and Shells (pp. 131–162). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Neophilologus.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, August 13). Mass Extinctions May Actually Speed Up Evolution. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mass-extinctions-may-actually-speed-evolution/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2002). Social Security Administration: Fugitive Felon Program Could Benefit from Better Use of Technology (No. GAO-02-346). 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

Mehta, K. (2015). An optimized modified booth recoder for efficient design of the add-multiply operator (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2008, February 26). Justices Weigh if Cash Hidden Is Cash Laundered. New York Times, p. A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hilton 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Anversa and Nadal-Ginard 2002; Hilton 2015).

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

Two authors: (Anversa and Nadal-Ginard 2002)
Three or more authors: (Louail et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neophilologus
Abbreviation	Neophilologus
ISSN (print)	0028-2677
ISSN (online)	1572-8668
Scope	Literature and Literary Theory Linguistics and Language