How to format your references using the Journal of English for Academic Purposes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of English for Academic 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

Smith, C. (2003). A question of form. Nature, 422(6929), 341.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bakker, H. J., & Nienhuys, H.-K. (2002). Delocalization of protons in liquid water. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5581), 587–590.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaufman, T. C., Severson, D. W., & Robinson, G. E. (2002). The Anopheles genome and comparative insect genomics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5591), 97–98.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Lui, C. H., Liu, L., Mak, K. F., Flynn, G. W., & Heinz, T. F. (2009). Ultraflat graphene. Nature, 462(7271), 339–341.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hanzo, L., & Keller, T. (2006). OFDM and MC-CDMA. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Zabar, S., Kachur, E., Kalet, A., & Hanley, K. (Eds.). (2013). Objective Structured Clinical Examinations: 10 Steps to Planning and Implementing OSCEs and Other Standardized Patient Exercises. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cuevas, E., Zaldívar, D., & Perez-Cisneros, M. (2016). Template Matching by Using the States of Matter Algorithm. In D. Zaldívar & M. Perez-Cisneros (Eds.), Applications of Evolutionary Computation in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (pp. 79–105). 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 Journal of English for Academic Purposes.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, January 8). Mysterious Legendary Metal Found In Ancient Shipwreck. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/mysterious-metal-atlantis-found-shipwreck-sicily/

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. (1994). Technology Transfers: Benefits of Cooperative R&D Agreements (RCED-95-52). 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

Brown, J. T. (2010). Evaluation of a social science simulation by uncertainty analysis and comparison [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Stellin, S. (2014, May 8). Your Digital Trail Follows You to the Border. New York Times, F3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Bakker & Nienhuys, 2002; Smith, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Bakker & Nienhuys, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Lui et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of English for Academic Purposes
Abbreviation	J. Engl. Acad. Purp.
ISSN (print)	1475-1585
Scope	Language and Linguistics Education Linguistics and Language