How to format your references using the The Journal of Academic Librarianship citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 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

Moazed, D. (2009). Small RNAs in transcriptional gene silencing and genome defence. Nature, 457(7228), 413–420.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shao, S., & Hegde, R. S. (2014). Cell Biology. Local synthesis and disposal. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6210), 701–702.

A journal article with 3 authors

Selmecki, A., Forche, A., & Berman, J. (2006). Aneuploidy and isochromosome formation in drug-resistant Candida albicans. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5785), 367–370.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Stanhope, M. J., Lupas, A., Italia, M. J., Koretke, K. K., Volker, C., & Brown, J. R. (2001). Phylogenetic analyses do not support horizontal gene transfers from bacteria to vertebrates. Nature, 411(6840), 940–944.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bell, M. (2016). Incremental Software Architecture. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Dada, A., Stanoevska, K., & Gómez, J. M. (Eds.). (2013). Organizations’ Environmental Performance Indicators: Measuring, Monitoring, and Management. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Starkey, C., & Tomalin, E. (2013). Gender, Buddhism and Education: Dhamma and Social Transformation Within the Theravada Tradition. In Z. Gross, L. Davies, & A.-K. Diab (Eds.), Gender, Religion and Education in a Chaotic Postmodern World (pp. 55–71). Springer Netherlands.

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 The Journal of Academic Librarianship.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, March 23). Women Still Find It Tough To Reach The Top In Science. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/women-still-find-it-tough-reach-top-science/

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. (1990). Motor Vehicle Safety: Information on Accidental Fires in Manufacturing Air Bag Propellant (RCED-90-230). 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

Harper, T. (2010). Going public, staying private, and everything in between [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Mueller, B., Southall, A., & Baker, A. L. (2016, August 4). Social Circles Collide on the Dance Floor. Then, a Deadly Brawl. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moazed, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Moazed, 2009; Shao & Hegde, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Shao & Hegde, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Stanhope et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Academic Librarianship
Abbreviation	J. Acad. Libr..
ISSN (print)	0099-1333
Scope	Education Library and Information Sciences