How to format your references using the Journal of Computer Languages citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computer Languages. 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

[1]

U. Leonhardt, Optical conformal mapping, Science 312 (2006) 1777–1780.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.J. Freedman, J.A. Assad, Experience-dependent representation of visual categories in parietal cortex, Nature 443 (2006) 85–88.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Gu, A.R. Koymen, S.K. Mohanty, Crystalline magnetic carbon nanoparticle assisted photothermal delivery into cells using CW near-infrared laser beam, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5106.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.M. Stenman, J. Rajagopal, T.J. Carroll, M. Ishibashi, J. McMahon, A.P. McMahon, Canonical Wnt signaling regulates organ-specific assembly and differentiation of CNS vasculature, Science 322 (2008) 1247–1250.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Lloret, G. Shulman, R.M. Love, Condition and Health Indicators of Exploited Marine Fishes, John Wiley & Sons, Oxford, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

L.-J.C. Wong, ed., Mitochondrial Disorders Caused by Nuclear Genes, Springer, New York, NY, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Shimizu, DNA Microarray Technology Evaluation of Effect of Dietary Intake of Crude Rice Glycosphingolipids in Mice, in: M. Kamihira, Y. Katakura, A. Ito (Eds.), Animal Cell Technology: Basic & Applied Aspects: Proceedings of the 21st Annual and International Meeting of the Japanese Association for Animal Cell Technology (JAACT), Fukuoka, Japan, November 24-27, 2008, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010: pp. 19–25.

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 Journal of Computer Languages.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, Relatives Of Schizophrenics Share Some Of Their Brain Abnormalities – So Why Don’t They Suffer From The Condition?, IFLScience (2016).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Loma Prieta Earthquake: Collapse of the Bay Bridge and the Cypress Viaduct, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. Williams, The Impact on Reunification for Families with Incarcerated Parents: A Policy Analysis of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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

[1]

G. Loomis, Franz Schreker’s Triumphant Return, New York Times (2012) 0.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Computer Languages
ISSN (print)	2590-1184
Scope