How to format your references using the Gengo Kenkyu, Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Gengo Kenkyu, Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan. 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

Mueller, Kristen L. (2013) Antibodies. The future is now. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.) 341: 1191.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nusbaum, Michael P. and Mark P. Beenhakker (2002) A small-systems approach to motor pattern generation. Nature 417: 343–350.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brooks-Pollock, Ellen, Gareth O. Roberts, and Matt J. Keeling (2014) A dynamic model of bovine tuberculosis spread and control in Great Britain. Nature 511: 228–231.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Alonso, Maria C., Douglas R. Drummond, Susan Kain, Julia Hoeng, Linda Amos, and Robert A. Cross (2007) An ATP gate controls tubulin binding by the tethered head of kinesin-1. Science (New York, N.Y.) 316: 120–123.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henry-Labordère, Arnaud (2009) Virtual Roaming Systems for GSM, GPRS and UMTS. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gavrilova, Marina L., C.J. Kenneth Tan, and François Anton (eds.) (2010) Transactions on Computational Science IX: Special Issue on Voronoi Diagrams in Science and Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Silvester, Alan K., Michael J. Jacobson, and Hugh C. Williams (2013) Shorter Compact Representations in Real Quadratic Fields. In: Marc Fischlin and Stefan Katzenbeisser (eds.) Number Theory and Cryptography: Papers in Honor of Johannes Buchmann on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, 50–72. 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 Gengo Kenkyu, Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise (2014) Scientists Grow New Blood Vessels In Just 7 Days. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-grow-new-blood-vessels-just-7-days/ [accessed 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 (1989) Women and Minority Aerospace Industry Profile, 1979-1986, 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

Thomas, Erica Monique (2016) Perceptions of educational leaders’ efficacy and leadership capacity upon preliminary administrative credential completion at California State University, Long Beach. 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

Stevenson, Alexandra and Matthew Goldstein (2016) Renting to Own a Tainted Home. New York Times, December 26, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mueller 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Mueller 2013; Nusbaum and Beenhakker 2002).

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

Two authors: (Nusbaum and Beenhakker 2002)
Three or more authors: (Alonso et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Gengo Kenkyu, Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan
ISSN (online)	0024-3914
Scope