How to format your references using the English for Specific Purposes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for English for Specific Purposes. 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	Download the output style file
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

Walker, N. J. (2002). Tech.Sight. A technique whose time has come. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5567), 557–559.

A journal article with 2 authors

Benedito, R., & Adams, R. H. (2009). Development. Aorta’s cardinal secret. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5950), 242–243.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, K., Dickinson, R. E., & Liang, S. (2009). Clear sky visibility has decreased over land globally from 1973 to 2007. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5920), 1468–1470.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Vanacore, R., Ham, A.-J. L., Voehler, M., Sanders, C. R., Conrads, T. P., Veenstra, T. D., Sharpless, K. B., Dawson, P. E., & Hudson, B. G. (2009). A sulfilimine bond identified in collagen IV. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5945), 1230–1234.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Padilla, E. (2015). Substation Automation Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Huynh, V.-N., Nakamori, Y., Ono, H., Lawry, J., Kreinovich, V., & Nguyen, H. T. (Eds.). (2008). Interval / Probabilistic Uncertainty and Non-Classical Logics (Vol. 46). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chapin, J. K. (2008). Hardware Implementation. In J. K. Chapin, G. A. Gerhardt, D. J. McFarland, J. C. Principe, W. V. Soussou, D. M. Taylor, & P. A. Tresco (Eds.), Brain-Computer Interfaces: An International Assessment of Research and Development Trends (pp. 65–79). 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 English for Specific Purposes.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, April 17). The Pope As Messenger: Making Climate Change A Moral Issue. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/pope-messenger-making-climate-change-moral-issue/

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. (1981). HHS Ability To Effectively Implement Incentive Funding for State Information Systems in the Aid to Families With Dependent Children Program (HRD-81-119). 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

Marulkar, S. (2016). Indoor object localization system [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Kishkovsky, S. (2006, November 23). Russia Inaugurates Book Prize. It’s Big. New York Times, E1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walker, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Benedito & Adams, 2009; Walker, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Benedito & Adams, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Vanacore et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	English for Specific Purposes
ISSN (print)	0889-4906
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