How to format your references using the Yearbook of English Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Yearbook of English Studies. 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

Piran, Tsvi, ‘Astronomy. Demotion Looms for Gamma-Ray Bursts’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 295.5557 (2002), pp. 986–87

A journal article with 2 authors

Hardie, Roger C., and Kristian Franze, ‘Photomechanical Responses in Drosophila Photoreceptors’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 338.6104 (2012), pp. 260–63

A journal article with 3 authors

Fonseca, P. J., D. Münch, and R. M. Hennig, ‘How Cicadas Interpret Acoustic Signals’, Nature, 405.6784 (2000), pp. 297–98

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jin, Rongsheng, Andreas Rummel, Thomas Binz, and Axel T. Brunger, ‘Botulinum Neurotoxin B Recognizes Its Protein Receptor with High Affinity and Specificity’, Nature, 444.7122 (2006), pp. 1092–95

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baker, H. Kent, and Philip English, Capital Budgeting Valuation (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011)

An edited book

Heumann, Christian, Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis: With Exercises, Solutions and Applications in R, ed. by Michael Schomaker and Shalabh (Springer International Publishing, 2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Onay-Besikci, Arzu, ‘Substrate Metabolism in the Diabetic Heart’, in Diabetic Cardiomyopathy: Biochemical and Molecular Mechanisms, ed. by Belma Turan and Naranjan S. Dhalla (Springer, 2014), pp. 65–76

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 Yearbook of English Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise, ‘Watch a Massive Spider Eating a Lizard Alive’, IFLScience (IFLScience, 2014) <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-massive-spider-eating-lizard-alive/> [accessed 30 October 2018]

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, Executive Office of the President: Analysis of EOP’s 1999 Information Technology Architecture Update and Capital Investment Plan Report (U.S. Government Printing Office, 4 February 2000)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Houger, Vaughan P., ‘Generational Differences and the Impact to Employee Engagement: A Program Design’ (unpublished Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2011)

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

Hu, Winnie, and Noah Remnick, ‘Belated Focus on Prime Suspect in an Outbreak’, New York Times, 4 August 2015, p. A1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Yearbook of English Studies
ISSN (print)	0306-2473
ISSN (online)	2222-4289
Scope