How to format your references using the Ostrava Journal of English Philology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ostrava Journal of English Philology. 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

Ray, L. Bryan. “Single-Cell Biology. Cells Go Solo. Introduction.” Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 342, no. 6163, Dec. 2013, p. 1187.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rodriguez, Alex, and Alessandro Laio. “Machine Learning. Clustering by Fast Search and Find of Density Peaks.” Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 344, no. 6191, June 2014, pp. 1492–96.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maamar, Hédia, et al. “Noise in Gene Expression Determines Cell Fate in Bacillus Subtilis.” Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 317, no. 5837, July 2007, pp. 526–29.

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Neumann, P., et al. “Multipartite Entanglement among Single Spins in Diamond.” Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 320, no. 5881, June 2008, pp. 1326–29.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bai, Ying. Practical Database Programming with Visual C#.NET. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Chen, Herbert, and Lillian S. Kao, editors. Success in Academic Surgery: Part 1. Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Zatwarnicki, Krzysztof. “Adaptive Request Distribution in Cluster-Based Web System.” Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 15th International Conference, KES 2011, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 12-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part I, edited by Andreas König et al., Springer, 2011, pp. 42–51.

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 Ostrava Journal of English Philology.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. “Massive New Study Suggests The Pill Has Prevented 200,000 Cases of Womb Cancer.” IFLScience, IFLScience, 5 Aug. 2015, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/massive-new-study-suggests-pill-prevented-200000-cases-womb-cancer/.

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. Evaluation of NASA Comments on Consolidated Space Operations Center. MASAD-82-43, U.S. Government Printing Office, 12 Aug. 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bernstine, Justin Tyler. Experiences of Students Transferring from Community and Technical Colleges to a Private Nonprofit University. 2015. George Washington University, Doctoral dissertation.

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

Walsh, Mary Williams. “U.S. Faulted Over Pay at Rescued Firms.” New York Times, 24 Jan. 2012, p. B4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Ostrava Journal of English Philology
ISSN (print)	1803-8174
Scope