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

Feldstein, Steven B. 2011. Atmospheric science. Subtropical rainfall and the Antarctic ozone hole. Science (New York, N.Y.) 332: 925–926.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jayawardhana, Ray, and Valentin D. Ivanov. 2006. Discovery of a young planetary-mass binary. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313: 1279–1281.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tateishi-Karimata, Hisae, Miki Nakano, and Naoki Sugimoto. 2014. Comparable stability of Hoogsteen and Watson-Crick base pairs in ionic liquid choline dihydrogen phosphate. Scientific reports 4: 3593.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Cooper, A., C. Lalueza-Fox, S. Anderson, A. Rambaut, J. Austin, and R. Ward. 2001. Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of two extinct moas clarify ratite evolution. Nature 409: 704–707.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schattke, Wolfgang, and Ricardo Díez Muiño. 2013. Quantum Monte Carlo Programming. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Sommaruga, Giovanni, and Thomas Strahm, ed. 2015. Turing’s Revolution: The Impact of His Ideas about Computability. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Spetich, Martin A., Roger W. Perry, Craig A. Harper, and Stacy L. Clark. 2011. Fire in Eastern Hardwood Forests Through 14,000 Years. In Sustaining Young Forest Communities: Ecology and Management of early successional habitats in the central hardwood region, USA, ed. Cathryn Greenberg, Beverly Collins, and Frank Thompson III, 41–58. Managing Forest Ecosystems. Dordrecht: 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 Comparative Germanic Linguistics.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2015. Why Is The Giant’s Causeway Hexagonal? IFLScience. IFLScience. October 15.

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. 2006. Congressional Oversight: FAA Case Study Shows How Agency Performance, Budgeting, and Financial Information Could Enhance Oversight. GAO-06-378. 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

Aslanyan, Alisa L. 2014. Psycho-educational group for family members of adults with a mental health diagnosis: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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. 2008. A Little Taste Of France. New York Times, February 24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Feldstein 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Jayawardhana and Ivanov 2006; Feldstein 2011).

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

Two authors: (Jayawardhana and Ivanov 2006)
Three or more authors: (Cooper et al. 2001)

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