How to format your references using the Neophilologus citation style

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

Lindemann, B. (2001). Receptors and transduction in taste. Nature, 413(6852), 219–225.

A journal article with 2 authors

Demaurex, N., & Distelhorst, C. (2003). Cell biology. Apoptosis--the calcium connection. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5616), 65–67.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sharam, G. J., Sinclair, A. R. E., & Turkington, R. (2009). Serengeti birds maintain forests by inhibiting seed predators. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5936), 51.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ma, J.-B., Yuan, Y.-R., Meister, G., Pei, Y., Tuschl, T., & Patel, D. J. (2005). Structural basis for 5’-end-specific recognition of guide RNA by the A. fulgidus Piwi protein. Nature, 434(7033), 666–670.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tsui, J. B.-Y. (2004). Fundamentals of Global Positioning System Receivers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Proulx, T. (Ed.). (2011). Engineering Applications of Residual Stress, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kaidanovskii, N. L. (2012). The Department of Radio Astronomy of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In S. Y. Braude, A. E. Salomonovich, V. A. Samanian, I. S. Shklovskii, R. L. Sorochenko, V. S. Troitskii, et al. (Eds.), A Brief History of Radio Astronomy in the USSR: A Collection of Scientific Essays (pp. 117–135). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Neophilologus.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, May 19). “I Just Can’t Get You Out Of My Head”: How To Eradicate Earworms. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/i-just-can-t-get-you-out-my-head-how-eradicate-earworms/. Accessed 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. (1993). Systemwide Education Reform: Federal Leadership Could Facilitate District-Level Efforts (No. HRD-93-97). 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

Zhu, Z. (2010). Financial restatements: Implications for management earnings forecasts (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

Gelles, D., Thomas, L., Jr., Sorkin, A. R., & Kelly, K. (2017, August 16). Rebellion by Business Leaders Spelled End of Trump Councils. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lindemann 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Demaurex and Distelhorst 2003; Lindemann 2001).

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

Two authors: (Demaurex and Distelhorst 2003)
Three or more authors: (Ma et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neophilologus
Abbreviation	Neophilologus
ISSN (print)	0028-2677
ISSN (online)	1572-8668
Scope	Literature and Literary Theory Linguistics and Language