How to format your references using the The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Kerp, Hans. 2002. Atmospheric CO2 from fossil plant cuticles. Nature 415: 38.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tabas, Ira, and Christopher K. Glass. 2013. Anti-inflammatory therapy in chronic disease: challenges and opportunities. Science (New York, N.Y.) 339: 166–172.

A journal article with 3 authors

Healy, David, Richard R. Jones, and Robert E. Holdsworth. 2006. Three-dimensional brittle shear fracturing by tensile crack interaction. Nature 439: 64–67.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tanzilli, S., W. Tittel, M. Halder, O. Alibart, P. Baldi, N. Gisin, and H. Zbinden. 2005. A photonic quantum information interface. Nature 437: 116–120.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

zur Hausen, Harald. 2006. Infections Causing Human Cancer. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Peters, Michael A., ed. 2012. Obama and The End of the American Dream: Essays in Political and Economic Philosophy. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Palin, V. V., and E. V. Radkevich. 2015. On the Riemann’s Problem for One Nonstrictly Hyperbolic System. In Continuous and Distributed Systems II: Theory and Applications, ed. Viktor A. Sadovnichiy and Mikhail Z. Zgurovsky, 83–99. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Comparative Germanic Linguistics.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. Fire Tornadoes: One More Way Earth Is Trying To Kill You. IFLScience. IFLScience. May 6.

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. 1995. Inspectors General: Alleged Misconduct by NASA Inspector General. OSI-95-9. Washington, DC: 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

Roediger, Erik. 2015. Relaxation Skills Training for Elementary Aged Children. Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Feeney, Kelly. 2007. A Smorgasbord of Empanadas. New York Times, February 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kerp 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Kerp 2002; Tabas and Glass 2013).

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

Two authors: (Tabas and Glass 2013)
Three or more authors: (Tanzilli et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
ISSN (print)	1383-4924
ISSN (online)	1572-8552
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Linguistics and Language