How to format your references using the Bakhtiniana: Journal of Discourse Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bakhtiniana: Journal of Discourse 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

WATANABE, M. Small World, Big Hopes. Nature. v. 426, no. 6965, pp.478–479. 27 Nov. 2003

A journal article with 2 authors

RUSKOV, R.; TAHAN, C. Quantum Processing. Catching the Quantum Sound Wave. Science (New York, N.Y.). v. 346, no. 6206, pp.165–166. 10 Oct. 2014

A journal article with 3 authors

HUMANES-VALERA, D.; FOFFANI, G.; AGUILAR, J. Increased Cortical Responses to Forepaw Stimuli Immediately after Peripheral Deafferentation of Hindpaw Inputs. Scientific reports. v. 4, p.7278. 2 Dec. 2014

A journal article with 4 or more authors

MILLER-JENSEN, K. et al. Common Effector Processing Mediates Cell-Specific Responses to Stimuli. Nature. v. 448, no. 7153, pp.604–608. 2 Aug. 2007

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

SMITH, I. M.; GRIFFITHS, D. V.; MARGETTS, L. Programming the Finite Element Method. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015

An edited book

PELEG, M.; LAVRAČ, N.; COMBI, C. (ed.). Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2011, Bled, Slovenia, July 2-6, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011v. 6747

A chapter in an edited book

FRÖHLICH, F.; THEIS, F. J.; HASENAUER, J. Uncertainty Analysis for Non-identifiable Dynamical Systems: Profile Likelihoods, Bootstrapping and More. In: Computational Methods in Systems Biology: 12th International Conference, CMSB 2014, Manchester, UK, November 17-19, 2014, Proceedings. Edited by Pedro Mendes; Joseph O. Dada; and Kieran Smallbone. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. pp.61–72.

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 Bakhtiniana: Journal of Discourse Studies.

Blog post

ANDREW, E. Evidence of Water in Meteorite Reopens Debate on Ancient Martian Life. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/evidence-water-meteorite-reopens-debate-ancient-martian-life/. Access on: 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. Air Traffic Control: FAA Uses Earned Value Techniques to Help Manage Information Technology Acquisitions, but Needs to Clarify Policy and Strengthen Oversight. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 18 Jul. 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

TRINOOSON, T. E. CFD investigations of a round jet with coil insert in crossflow. 2010. (Doctoral dissertation) – California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2010

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

WITZ, B. All Kidding Aside, Alderson and Mets Sign Tebow to Minor League Deal. New York Times. p.B13. 9 Sep. 2016

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Bakhtiniana: Journal of Discourse Studies
ISSN (print)	2176-4573
Scope