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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Maxmen, Amy. “Fighting the Monster.” Nature 466, no. 7304 (July 15, 2010): S18-9.
A journal article with 2 authors
Kovács, István A., and Albert-László Barabási. “Network Science: Destruction Perfected.” Nature 524, no. 7563 (August 6, 2015): 38–39.
A journal article with 3 authors
Lee, Te-Hao, Swarup Bhunia, and Mehran Mehregany. “Electromechanical Computing at 500 Degrees C with Silicon Carbide.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 329, no. 5997 (September 10, 2010): 1316–18.
A journal article with 11 or more authors
Yusa, Kosuke, Kyoji Horie, Gen Kondoh, Michiyoshi Kouno, Yusuke Maeda, Taroh Kinoshita, and Junji Takeda. “Genome-Wide Phenotype Analysis in ES Cells by Regulated Disruption of Bloom’s Syndrome Gene.” Nature 429, no. 6994 (June 24, 2004): 896–99.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Holt, Jason. The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
An edited book
Mohamad Zain, Jasni, Wan Maseri bt Wan Mohd, and Eyas El-Qawasmeh, eds. Software Engineering and Computer Systems: Second International Conference, ICSECS 2011, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia, June 27-29, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. Vol. 179. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.
A chapter in an edited book
Shih, Chia-Yen, Jesús Capitán, Pedro José Marrón, Antidio Viguria, Francisco Alarcón, Marc Schwarzbach, Maximilian Laiacker, Konstantin Kondak, José Ramiro Martínez-de Dios, and Aníbal Ollero. “On the Cooperation between Mobile Robots and Wireless Sensor Networks.” In Cooperative Robots and Sensor Networks 2014, edited by Anis Koubaa and Abdelmajid Khelil, 67–86. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014.

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
Andrew, Elise. “China, U.S. and Brazil Make New Climate Pledges.” IFLScience. IFLScience, July 1, 2015.

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. “Mass Transit: Grants Management Oversight Improving, but Better Follow-up Needed on Grantees’ Noncompliance.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, April 3, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Barrett, Brandon T. “Modernizing Copyright for Equitable Treatment in the Streaming Age.” Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2015.

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
Verkuil, Paul R. “The Case for Bureaucracy.” New York Times, October 3, 2016.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal titleQuarterly Journal of Speech
AbbreviationQ. J. Speech
ISSN (print)0033-5630
ISSN (online)1479-5779
ScopeLanguage and Linguistics
Education
Communication

Other styles