How to format your references using the Functional Linguistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Functional 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 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

Weydt, P. 2000. Biomedical centre memorial to victims of Nazi research. Nature 403: 816.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sheinin, Maxim Y., and Michelle D. Wang. 2012. Biochemistry. A DNA twist diffuses and hops. Science (New York, N.Y.) 338: 56–57.

A journal article with 3 authors

Álvarez, Gonzalo A., Dieter Suter, and Robin Kaiser. 2015. QUANTUM SIMULATION. Localization-delocalization transition in the dynamics of dipolar-coupled nuclear spins. Science (New York, N.Y.) 349: 846–848.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

McKeever, J., A. Boca, A. D. Boozer, R. Miller, J. R. Buck, A. Kuzmich, and H. J. Kimble. 2004. Deterministic generation of single photons from one atom trapped in a cavity. Science (New York, N.Y.) 303: 1992–1994.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Imrie, Rob, and Emma Street. 2011. Architectural Design and Regulation. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Poler, Raúl, Marten van Sinderen, and Raquel Sanchis, ed. 2009. Enterprise Interoperability: Second IFIP WG 5.8 International Workshop, IWEI 2009, Valencia, Spain, October 13-14, 2009. Proceedings. Vol. 38. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Küster, Ulrich, and Birgitta König-Ries. 2010. Measures for Benchmarking Semantic Web Service Matchmaking Correctness. In The Semantic Web: Research and Applications: 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2010, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 30 – June 3, 2010, Proceedings, Part II, ed. Lora Aroyo, Grigoris Antoniou, Eero Hyvönen, Annette Ten Teije, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Liliana Cabral, and Tania Tudorache, 45–59. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 Functional Linguistics.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2017. Watch Four Exoplanets Orbit Their Star In This Amazing Video. IFLScience. IFLScience. January 27.

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. 1989. ADP Budget: Potential Reductions to Army Automation Initiatives. IMTEC-90-3. 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

Robert, Neal Anthony. 2017. Cortile: World Building & the Traveler Archetype. Doctoral dissertation, Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Billard, Mary. 2010. Scouting Report. New York Times, August 26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weydt 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Weydt 2000; Sheinin and Wang 2012).

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

Two authors: (Sheinin and Wang 2012)
Three or more authors: (McKeever et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Functional Linguistics
ISSN (online)	2196-419X
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