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

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

Stoerig, P., 2006. Neuroscience. The impact of invisible stimuli. Science 314, 1694–1695.

A journal article with 2 authors

Minton, D.A., Malhotra, R., 2009. A record of planet migration in the main asteroid belt. Nature 457, 1109–1111.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hunt, N., McGrath, D., Stergiou, N., 2014. The influence of auditory-motor coupling on fractal dynamics in human gait. Sci. Rep. 4, 5879.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cheng, E.H.Y., Sheiko, T.V., Fisher, J.K., Craigen, W.J., Korsmeyer, S.J., 2003. VDAC2 inhibits BAK activation and mitochondrial apoptosis. Science 301, 513–517.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kang, S., 2012. Micro/Nano Replication. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bhola, P., Raguram, A. (Eds.), 2016. Ethical Issues in Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice: Walking the Line. Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Ureña-Guerrero, M.E., Feria-Velasco, A.I., Gudiño-Cabrera, G., Espuny, A.C., Beas-Zárate, C., 2013. Modifications in the Seizures Susceptibility by Excitotoxic Neuronal Damage and Its Possible Relationship with the Pharmacoresistance, in: Rocha, L., Cavalheiro, E.A. (Eds.), Pharmacoresistance in Epilepsy: From Genes and Molecules to Promising Therapies. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 59–76.

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 Pragmatics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. This Will Revolutionize Education [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/why-has-technology-not-revolutionized-education/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2013. Status of the Department of Education’s Inventory of Its Data Collections (No. GAO-13-596R). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lowrance, T.L., 2017. Exploring the Four Modes of Organizational Forgetting in an Organization Post Acquisition (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Vecsey, G., 2011. Juventus, Tainted by a Scandal, Tries to Regain Its Luster. New York Times B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stoerig, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Minton and Malhotra, 2009; Stoerig, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Minton and Malhotra, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Cheng et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Pragmatics
Abbreviation	J. Pragmat.
ISSN (print)	0378-2166
Scope	Language and Linguistics Artificial Intelligence Linguistics and Language