How to format your references using the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming citation style

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

[1]

J. Mervis, 2001 BUDGET: Spending Bills Show No Sign of Surplus--Yet, Science 289 (2000) 31.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N.K. Ferdinand, B. Opitz, Different aspects of performance feedback engage different brain areas: disentangling valence and expectancy in feedback processing, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5986.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Arendt, U. Technau, J. Wittbrodt, Evolution of the bilaterian larval foregut, Nature 409 (2001) 81–85.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.W. De Tomaso, S.V. Nyholm, K.J. Palmeri, K.J. Ishizuka, W.B. Ludington, K. Mitchel, I.L. Weissman, Isolation and characterization of a protochordate histocompatibility locus, Nature 438 (2005) 454–459.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

F. Eric G., R. Yvonne, Growing Pains, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

R. Dhiman, Compact Models and Performance Investigations for Subthreshold Interconnects, Springer India, New Delhi, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A.B. Marín-Arroyo, New Opportunities for Previously Excavated Sites: Paleoeconomy as a Human Evolutionary Indicator at Tabun Cave (Israel), in: J.L. Clark, J.D. Speth (Eds.), Zooarchaeology and Modern Human Origins: Human Hunting Behavior during the Later Pleistocene, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013: pp. 59–75.

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 Logic and Algebraic Programming.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Beyond Genetics: Illuminating The Epigenome, IFLScience (2015).

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, Relationship of Contractor and Grantee ADP Activities, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.J. Woodland, Investigating the role of the mid-Atlantic inner continental shelf as a marine finfish nursery: A comparative approach, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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]

A. Newman, Solemn Vows Were Routine for Woman in Fraud Case, New York Times (2015) A19.

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 Logic and Algebraic Programming
Abbreviation	J. Log. Algebr. Program.
ISSN (print)	1567-8326
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Software Logic Theoretical Computer Science