How to format your references using the Poetics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Poetics. 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	Download the output style file
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

Melton, L. (2003). Pharmacogenetics and genotyping: on the trail of SNPs. Nature, 422(6934), 917, 919, 921, 923.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kleinman, C. L., & Majewski, J. (2012). Comment on “Widespread RNA and DNA sequence differences in the human transcriptome.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6074), 1302; author reply 1302.

A journal article with 3 authors

Deller, A. T., Bailes, M., & Tingay, S. J. (2009). Implications of a VLBI distance to the double pulsar J0737-3039A/B. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5919), 1327–1329.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Volpert, M., Mangum, J. E., Jamsai, D., D’Sylva, R., O’Bryan, M. K., & McIntyre, P. (2014). Eukaryotic expression, purification and structure/function analysis of native, recombinant CRISP3 from human and mouse. Scientific Reports, 4, 4217.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dujmović, D., Androić, B., & Lukačević, I. (2014). Composite Structures According to Eurocode 4. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Williams, R. O., III, Watts, A. B., & Miller, D. A. (Eds.). (2012). Formulating Poorly Water Soluble Drugs (1st ed., Vol. 3). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Latgé, J. P., & Calderone, R. (2006). The Fungal Cell Wall. In U. Kües & R. Fischer (Eds.), Growth, Differentiation and Sexuality (pp. 73–104). 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 Poetics.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, November 15). Controversial Attempt To Revive Brain-Dead Patients Scrapped By Indian Authorities. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/controversial-attempt-to-revive-braindead-patients-scrapped-by-indian-authorities/

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. (1998). Aviation Competition: Proposed Domestic Airline Alliances Raise Serious Issues (T-RCED-98-215). 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

Kwon, Y. (2009). Extreme value estimators: Their long memory feature and forecasting performances in the U.S. stock indexes [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Pilon, M. (2013, December 12). For Some Players, Tax Ensures a Loss Even After a Win. New York Times, B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Melton, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Kleinman & Majewski, 2012; Melton, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Kleinman & Majewski, 2012)
Three authors: (Deller et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Volpert et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Poetics
Abbreviation	Poetics (Amst.)
ISSN (print)	0304-422X
Scope	Language and Linguistics Literature and Literary Theory Linguistics and Language Communication