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

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

Bloom, Paul. 2004. Behavior. Can a dog learn a word? Science (New York, N.Y.) 304(5677), 1605–1606.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tilman, David & Emilie C. Snell-Rood. 2014. Ecology: Diversity breeds complementarity. Nature 515(7525), 44–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu, Wenzhuo, Xiaonan Wen & Zhong Lin Wang. 2013. Taxel-addressable matrix of vertical-nanowire piezotronic transistors for active and adaptive tactile imaging. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340(6135), 952–957.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Akamatsu, Norihisa, Wataru Tashiro, Keisuke Saito, Jun-Ichi Mamiya, Motoi Kinoshita, Tomiki Ikeda, Jun Takeya, Shigenori Fujikawa, Arri Priimagi & Atsushi Shishido. 2014. Facile strain analysis of largely bending films by a surface-labelled grating method. Scientific reports 4, 5377.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flaus, Jean-Marie. 2013. Risk Analysis. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Khalilpour, Kaveh Rajab. 2016. Community Energy Networks With Storage: Modeling Frameworks for Distributed Generation (Green Energy and Technology). (Ed.) Anthony Vassallo. Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Stanković, Radomir S. & Jaakko Astola. 2011. Boolean Algebra - A Mathematical Subject. In Jaakko Astola (ed.), From Boolean Logic to Switching Circuits and Automata: Towards Modern Information Technology (Studies in Computational Intelligence), 111–116. 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 Journal of Linguistics.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle. 2017. A 10-Foot Great White Shark Jumped Right Into A Fisherman’s Boat In Australia. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/a-10foot-great-white-shark-jumped-right-into-a-fishermans-boat-in-australia/ (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. 1985. Implementing the Small Business Innovation Development Act--The First 2 Years. 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

Jordan, Valin Skye. 2017. A Mixed Methodology Exploration of White Female Pre-Service Teachers’ Discussions of Race and Gender through Presentations of Counternarratives in Children’s Literature Books. George Washington University Doctoral dissertation.

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

Poniewozik, James. 2017. Good Characters Are Hard to Find. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bloom 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Bloom 2004; Tilman & Snell-Rood 2014).

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

Two authors: (Tilman & Snell-Rood 2014)
Three authors: (Wu, Wen & Wang 2013)
4 or more authors: (Akamatsu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Linguistics
ISSN (print)	0022-2267
ISSN (online)	1469-7742
Scope