How to format your references using the Asian Geographer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Geographer. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX 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

Pandolfi, John M. 2015. “Ecology: Deep and Complex Ways to Survive Bleaching.” Nature 518 (7537): 43–44.

A journal article with 2 authors

Medema, Jan Paul, and Louis Vermeulen. 2011. “Microenvironmental Regulation of Stem Cells in Intestinal Homeostasis and Cancer.” Nature 474 (7351): 318–326.

A journal article with 3 authors

Taguchi, Akiko, Lynn M. Wartschow, and Morris F. White. 2007. “Brain IRS2 Signaling Coordinates Life Span and Nutrient Homeostasis.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 317 (5836): 369–372.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Saito, Kuniaki, Sachi Inagaki, Toutai Mituyama, Yoshinori Kawamura, Yukiteru Ono, Eri Sakota, Hazuki Kotani, Kiyoshi Asai, Haruhiko Siomi, and Mikiko C. Siomi. 2009. “A Regulatory Circuit for Piwi by the Large Maf Gene Traffic Jam in Drosophila.” Nature 461 (7268): 1296–1299.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bouvier, Jean-Marie, and Osvaldo H. Campanella. 2014. Extrusion Processing Technology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Jannini, Emmanuele A., Chris G. McMahon, and Marcel D. Waldinger, eds. 2013. Premature Ejaculation: From Etiology to Diagnosis and Treatment. Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Herout, Adam, Markéta Dubská, and Jirí Havel. 2013. “PClines: Line Parameterization Based on Parallel Coordinates.” In Real-Time Detection of Lines and Grids: By PClines and Other Approaches, edited by Markéta Dubská and Jiří Havel, 35–40. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. London: Springer.

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 Asian Geographer.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2016. “Tiny Vampires In Ancient Seas Sucked The Insides Out Of Their Prey.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tiny-vampires-ancient-seas-sucked-insides-out-their-prey/.

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. 2005. College Textbooks: Enhanced Offerings Appear to Drive Recent Price Increases. GAO-05-806. 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

Lama, Norsang. 2017. “Optimized Veterinary Thermographic Image Classification Using Support Vector Machines and Noise Mitigation.” Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University.

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

Billard, Mary. 2013. “The Wildness of Clothes, but Not for Fashion.” New York Times, October 31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pandolfi 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Pandolfi 2015; Medema and Vermeulen 2011).

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

Two authors: (Medema and Vermeulen 2011)
Three authors: (Taguchi, Wartschow, and White 2007)
4 or more authors: (Saito et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asian Geographer
Abbreviation	Asian Geogr.
ISSN (print)	1022-5706
ISSN (online)	2158-1762
Scope