How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Logic citation style

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


PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles 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]
G.J. Nabel, Challenges and opportunities for development of an AIDS vaccine, Nature. 410 (2001) 1002–1007.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
F.M.M. Morel, J.T. Groves, Retrospective: Edward I. Stiefel (1942-2006), Science. 314 (2006) 1406.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
T. Di Matteo, V. Springel, L. Hernquist, Energy input from quasars regulates the growth and activity of black holes and their host galaxies, Nature. 433 (2005) 604–607.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
M. Cavey, M. Rauzi, P.-F. Lenne, T. Lecuit, A two-tiered mechanism for stabilization and immobilization of E-cadherin, Nature. 453 (2008) 751–756.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
K.-E. Kurrer, Geschichte der Baustatik, Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany, 2016.
An edited book
[1]
L. Leyssenne, Reconfigurable RF Power Amplifiers on Silicon for Wireless Handsets, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
W. Fan, N. Bouguila, Nonparametric Localized Feature Selection via a Dirichlet Process Mixture of Generalized Dirichlet Distributions, in: T. Huang, Z. Zeng, C. Li, C.S. Leung (Eds.), Neural Information Processing: 19th International Conference, ICONIP 2012, Doha, Qatar, November 12-15, 2012, Proceedings, Part III, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 25–33.

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 Applied Logic.

Blog post
[1]
J. Fang, Ancient Two-Faced Fish Suggests Our Ancestor Wasn’t Shark-Like, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-two-faced-fish-suggests-our-ancestor-wasnt-shark/ (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
[1]
Government Accountability Office, Talking Books for the Blind, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
K.F. Watson, Persons and how we trace them: What Johnston got wrong, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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.V. Green, Beds of State, New York Times. (2006) 14WC15.

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 titleJournal of Applied Logic
AbbreviationJ. Appl. Log.
ISSN (print)1570-8683
ScopeApplied Mathematics
Logic

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