How to format your references using the Speech Communication citation style

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

Rice, J., 2012. Metastasis: The rude awakening. Nature 485, S55-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schiøtz, J., Jacobsen, K.W., 2003. A maximum in the strength of nanocrystalline copper. Science 301, 1357–1359.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hicks, W.M., Kim, M., Haber, J.E., 2010. Increased mutagenesis and unique mutation signature associated with mitotic gene conversion. Science 329, 82–85.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Arzberger, P., Schroeder, P., Beaulieu, A., Bowker, G., Casey, K., Laaksonen, L., Moorman, D., Uhlir, P., Wouters, P., 2004. Science and government. An international framework to promote access to data. Science 303, 1777–1778.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minoli, D., 2007. IP Multicast with Applications to IPTV and Mobile DVB-H. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Păsăreanu, C.S. (Ed.), 2009. Model Checking Software: 16th International SPIN Workshop, Grenoble, France, June 26-28, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Giraud, O., Georgeot, B., Martin, J., 2009. Entanglement and Localization of Wavefunctions, in: Casati, G., Matrasulov, D. (Eds.), Complex Phenomena in Nanoscale Systems, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 51–63.

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 Speech Communication.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Thunder God Vine Extract Makes Obese Mice Rapidly Shed The Pounds [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2000. Public Education: Commercial Activities in Schools (No. HEHS-00-156). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Muehlhauser, C., 2017. Perceived Criticism, Self-Criticism, and Disordered Eating Patterns in College Students (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Gordon, M.R., 2017. Pentagon Inquiry Blames ISIS for Civilian Deaths in U.S. Strike on Mosul. New York Times A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rice, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Rice, 2012; Schiøtz and Jacobsen, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Schiøtz and Jacobsen, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Arzberger et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Speech Communication
Abbreviation	Speech Commun.
ISSN (print)	0167-6393
Scope	Language and Linguistics Computer Science Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Software Modelling and Simulation Linguistics and Language Communication