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

Gong, J. P. (2014). Materials science. Materials both tough and soft. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6180), 161–162.

A journal article with 2 authors

Silberzahn, R., & Uhlmann, E. L. (2015). Crowdsourced research: Many hands make tight work. Nature, 526(7572), 189–191.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kawase, H., Okata, Y., & Ito, K. (2013). Role of huge geometric circular structures in the reproduction of a marine pufferfish. Scientific reports, 3, 2106.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, Y., Xu, C.-Y., Wang, J.-Y., & Zhen, L. (2014). Photodiode-like behavior and excellent photoresponse of vertical Si/monolayer MoS2 heterostructures. Scientific reports, 4, 7186.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Escarpa, A., González, M. C., & López, M. Á. (2015). Agricultural and Food Electroanalysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Chen, X. (2014). Lanthanide-Doped Luminescent Nanomaterials: From Fundamentals to Bioapplications. (Y. Liu & D. Tu, Eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hultmark, M., Leftwich, M., & Smits, A. J. (2010). Flowfield measurements in the wake of a robotic lamprey. In G. K. Taylor, M. S. Triantafyllou, & C. Tropea (Eds.), Animal Locomotion (pp. 45–52). 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 Neophilologus.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2016, April 27). Polar Bears Must Swim For Several Days At A Time In The Melting Arctic. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1974). Assessment of the Work Incentive Program in Washington State (No. B-164031(3)). 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

Joseph, O. W. (2009). A study of the effectiveness of mentor roles in a rural school district (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

GEORGE ETHEREDGE for THE NEW YORK TIMES. (2016, October 21). Chandeliers. New York Times, p. RE13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gong 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gong 2014; Silberzahn and Uhlmann 2015).

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

Two authors: (Silberzahn and Uhlmann 2015)
Three or more authors: (Li 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