How to format your references using the John Benjamins Publishing Company - Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for John Benjamins Publishing Company - Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today. 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

Nelson, Michael R. 2009. Computer science. Building an open Cloud. Science (New York, N.Y.) 324(5935): 1656-57.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kubatko, Laura S. & Pearl, Dennis K. 2011. Evolution. Seeing the trees in your terrace. Science (New York, N.Y.) 333(6041): 411-12.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alexander, Millard H., Capecchi, Gabriella & Werner, Hans-Joachim. 2002. Theoretical study of the validity of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation in the Cl + H2 --> HCl + H reaction. Science (New York, N.Y.) 296(5568): 715-18.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lello, Joanne, Boag, Brian, Fenton, Andrew, Stevenson, Ian R. & Hudson, Peter J. 2004. Competition and mutualism among the gut helminths of a mammalian host. Nature 428(6985): 840-44.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stenning, Alison, Smith, Adrian, Rochovská, Alena & Świa̧tek, Dariusz. 2010. Domesticating Neo-Liberalism. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Barceló, Juan A. & Del Castillo, Florencia (eds). 2016. Simulating Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds [Computational Social Sciences]. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Song, Joo Y., Yu, Jianbo & Chan, Wing C. 2015. Gene Expression Profiling in Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas. In Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: Pathology, Imaging, and Current Therapy [Cancer Treatment and Research], Andrew M. Evens & Kristie A. Blum (eds), 97-123. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 John Benjamins Publishing Company - Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2015. Enormous Meteor Caught On Camera In Bangkok. IFLScience. IFLScience, 7 September 2015, <https://www.iflscience.com/space/dramatic-video-captures-meteor-exploding-above-bangkok/> (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. 1970. Use of Office and Administration Space at DOD Installations. 092739. 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

Shakya, Shubha. 2013. Characterization of Interaction of Calmodulin and its Chimeras with Orai1. Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University.

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

Yablonsky, Linda. 2010. Clay Mates. New York Times, August 22, 2010.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nelson 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Nelson 2009; Kubatko & Pearl 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kubatko & Pearl 2011)
Three authors: (Alexander, Capecchi & Werner 2002)
4 or more authors: (Lello et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	John Benjamins Publishing Company - Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
ISSN (print)	0166-0829
Scope