How to format your references using the Journal of Historical Linguistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Historical Linguistics (JHL). 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

Seife, C. 2000. MATERIALS SCIENCE: Long-Wavelength Lasers Sniff Out New Uses. Science (New York, N.Y.) 290:5493.916–917.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rowley, David B. & Brian S. Currie. 2006. Palaeo-altimetry of the late Eocene to Miocene Lunpola basin, central Tibet. Nature 439:7077.677–681.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yanagisawa, Shuichi, Sang Dong Yoo, & Jen Sheen. 2003. Differential regulation of EIN3 stability by glucose and ethylene signalling in plants. Nature 425:6957.521–525.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mao, Chuanbin, Daniel J. Solis, Brian D. Reiss, Stephen T. Kottmann, Rozamond Y. Sweeney, Andrew Hayhurst, George Georgiou, Brent Iverson, & Angela M. Belcher. 2004. Virus-based toolkit for the directed synthesis of magnetic and semiconducting nanowires. Science (New York, N.Y.) 303:5655.213–217.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hanzo, Lajos, Robert G. Maunder, Jin Wang, & Lie Liang Yang. 2010. Near-Capacity Variable-Length Coding. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Holcman, David. 2015. Stochastic Narrow Escape in Molecular and Cellular Biology: Analysis and Applications (Z Schuss, Ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Andreo, Rogelio Bernal. 2013. Bringing Out Faint Large-Scale Structure. Lessons from the Masters: Current Concepts in Astronomical Image Processing ed. by Gendler Robert, 97–113. New York, NY: 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 Journal of Historical Linguistics.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2014. Giant 17 Million Year Old Sperm Found Preserved. IFLScience.

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. 2015. Aviation Finance: Observations on the Effects of Budget Uncertainty on FAA. 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

Alameddine, Abir. 2013. Perceptions of executives from seven selected companies of the use of social media in marketing practices. Unpublished thesis, Pepperdine 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

Kanter, James. 2016. Europe’s Parliament Votes to Suspend Talks With Turkey on Joining E.U. New York TimesA6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Seife 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Seife 2000, Rowley & Currie 2006).

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

Two authors: (Rowley & Currie 2006)
Three authors: (Yanagisawa, Yoo, & Sheen 2003)
4 or more authors: (Mao et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Historical Linguistics
Abbreviation	J. Hist. Linguist.
ISSN (print)	2210-2116
ISSN (online)	2210-2124
Scope	Language and Linguistics Linguistics and Language