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

Henderson, Gideon M. 2005. Ocean science. Coral clues to rapid sea-level change. Science (New York, N.Y.) 308: 361–362.

A journal article with 2 authors

Druckman, James N., and Arthur Lupia. 2012. Social science. Experimenting with politics. Science (New York, N.Y.) 335: 1177–1179.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, Gene-Wei, Eugene Oh, and Jonathan S. Weissman. 2012. The anti-Shine-Dalgarno sequence drives translational pausing and codon choice in bacteria. Nature 484: 538–541.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pavlov, D. A., A. I. Bobrov, N. V. Malekhonova, A. V. Pirogov, and A. V. Nezhdanov. 2014. Self-assembled nanocrystals discovered in Chelyabinsk meteorite. Scientific reports 4: 4280.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morrison, Terry J. 2000. Functional Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Haasis, Hans-Dietrich, Herbert Kopfer, and Jörn Schönberger, ed. 2006. Operations Research Proceedings 2005: Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), Bremen, September 7–9, 2005. Vol. 2005. Operations Research Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cheng, Howard, and George Labahn. 2014. A Practical Implementation of a Modular Algorithm for Ore Polynomial Matrices. In Computer Mathematics: 9th Asian Symposium (ASCM2009), Fukuoka, December 2009, 10th Asian Symposium (ASCM2012), Beijing, October 2012, Contributed Papers and Invited Talks, ed. Ruyong Feng, Wen-Shin Lee, and Yosuke Sato, 49–59. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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, Danielle. 2017. Science Says Couples In Lasting Relationships Typically wait This Long To Start Having Sex. IFLScience. IFLScience. February 10.

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. 1997. Direct Student Loans: Analyses of Borrowers’ Use of the Income Contingent Repayment Option. HEHS-97-155. 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

Forget, Mary A. 2012. Tumor Angiogenesis is all Tied up in Tie2-Expressing Macrophages. Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

Saslow, Linda. 2008. Other School Districts Offered State Intervention. New York Times, February 10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Henderson 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Henderson 2005; Druckman and Lupia 2012).

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

Two authors: (Druckman and Lupia 2012)
Three or more authors: (Pavlov et al. 2014)

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