How to format your references using the Quarterly Journal of Speech citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Quarterly Journal of Speech. 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

Gruber, Nicolas. “Ocean Biogeochemistry: Carbon at the Coastal Interface.” Nature 517, no. 7533 (January 8, 2015): 148–49.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weygand-Durasevic, Ivana, and Michael Ibba. “Cell Biology. New Roles for Codon Usage.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 329, no. 5998 (September 17, 2010): 1473–74.

A journal article with 3 authors

Talkington, Megan W. T., Gary Siuzdak, and James R. Williamson. “An Assembly Landscape for the 30S Ribosomal Subunit.” Nature 438, no. 7068 (December 1, 2005): 628–32.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Sobol, R. W., R. Prasad, A. Evenski, A. Baker, X. P. Yang, J. K. Horton, and S. H. Wilson. “The Lyase Activity of the DNA Repair Protein Beta-Polymerase Protects from DNA-Damage-Induced Cytotoxicity.” Nature 405, no. 6788 (June 15, 2000): 807–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Black, Rex. Pragmatic Software Testing. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

Michler, Peter, ed. Single Semiconductor Quantum Dots. NanoScience and Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Singh, Sanjay Kumar. “Scenario of Urban Transport in Indian Cities: Challenges and the Way Forward.” In Cities and Sustainability: Issues and Strategic Pathways, edited by S. Mahendra Dev and Sudhakar Yedla, 81–111. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. New Delhi: Springer India, 2015.

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 Quarterly Journal of Speech.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. “This 22-Year-Old’s Idea Has Raised $31 Million To Clean Up Plastic In The Pacific.” IFLScience. IFLScience, May 5, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/this-22yearolds-idea-has-raised-31-million-to-clean-up-plastic-in-the-pacific-/.

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 Evaluation Synthesis.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, April 1, 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moncur, Honey Belinda. “Exploring Primary Caregivers’ Perceptions of the Effects of Secondhand Marijuana Smoke on Children: A Quantitative Study.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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

Crow, Kelly. “Hoping That Holiday Trees Will Change a Now Bleak View.” New York Times, November 18, 2001.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Quarterly Journal of Speech
Abbreviation	Q. J. Speech
ISSN (print)	0033-5630
ISSN (online)	1479-5779
Scope	Language and Linguistics Education Communication