How to format your references using the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in 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	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]

J.R. Weertman, Materials science. Retaining the nano in nanocrystalline alloys, Science 337 (2012) 921–922.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Nordborg, D. Weigel, Next-generation genetics in plants, Nature 456 (2008) 720–723.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Syntichaki, I. Topalidou, G. Thireos, The Gcn5 bromodomain co-ordinates nucleosome remodelling, Nature 404 (2000) 414–417.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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B.N. Kim, K. Hiraga, K. Morita, Y. Sakka, A high-strain-rate superplastic ceramic, Nature 413 (2001) 288–291.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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V. Niemi, K. Nyberg, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Security, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

R.V. O’Connor, N. Baddoo, K. Smolander, R. Messnarz, eds., Software Process Improvement: 15th European Conference, EuroSPI 2008, Dublin, Ireland, September 3-5, 2008. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

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G. Hedin, An Introductory Tutorial on JastAdd Attribute Grammars, in: J.M. Fernandes, R. Lämmel, J. Visser, J. Saraiva (Eds.), Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering III: International Summer School, GTTSE 2009, Braga, Portugal, July 6-11, 2009. Revised Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 166–200.

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 Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming.

Blog post

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A. Carpineti, Meteor Showers Are Warped By Gravity Of Planets, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/physics/meteor-showers-are-warped-by-gravity-of-planets/ (accessed October 30, 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

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Government Accountability Office, NASA: Challenges in Completing and Sustaining the International Space Station, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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C.D. Mullican, Multiple Intelligences in the Text: Examining the Presence of Multiple Intelligences Tasks in the Annotated Teacher’s Editions of Four High School United States History Textbooks, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2012.

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]

L. Picker, Low-Profile Deal Maker Is Choice to Head S.E.C, New York Times (2017) A13.

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 Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming
ISSN (print)	2352-2208
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Cultural Studies Political Science and International Relations