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

Robinson, Ken. 2006. “Personal Finance. Summer Salary and Other Windfalls.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 313 (5792): 1455.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hom, Erik F. Y., and Andrew W. Murray. 2014. “Plant-Fungal Ecology. Niche Engineering Demonstrates a Latent Capacity for Fungal-Algal Mutualism.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 345 (6192): 94–98.

A journal article with 3 authors

Acuña, José Luis, Ángel López-Urrutia, and Sean Colin. 2011. “Faking Giants: The Evolution of High Prey Clearance Rates in Jellyfishes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333 (6049): 1627–1629.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

He, Qing Lin, Ying Hoi Lai, Yao Lu, Kam Tuen Law, and Iam Keong Sou. 2013. “Surface Reactivity Enhancement on a Pd/Bi2Te3 Heterostructure through Robust Topological Surface States.” Scientific Reports 3: 2497.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yanni, Souzan B. 2015. Translational ADMET for Drug Therapy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Linkov, Igor, Gregory A. Kiker, and Richard J. Wenning, eds. 2007. Environmental Security in Harbors and Coastal Areas: Management Using Comparative Risk Assessment and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. NATO Security through Science Series, Series C: Environmental Security. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Trinitis, Carsten, Tilman Küstner, Josef Weidendorfer, and Jasmin Smajic. 2009. “Sparse Matrix Operations on Multi-Core Architectures.” In Parallel Computing Technologies: 10th International Conference, PaCT 2009, Novosibirsk, Russia, August 31-September 4, 2009. Proceedings, edited by Victor Malyshkin, 41–48. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Davis, Josh. 2016. “One-Third Of European Children Aged Six To Nine Now Overweight Or Obese.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/one-third-european-children-now-overweight-or-obese/.

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. 1973. Protest of NASA RFP. B-177184. 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

Alderson, Maryanne. 2017. “Procedural Justice and Police Encounters with Homeless Injecting Drug Users.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

de la MERCED, Michael J., and Joe Drape. 2017. “Co-Founder of Alibaba Is Said to Buy a 49 Percent Stake in the Nets.” New York Times, October 27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robinson 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Robinson 2006; Hom and Murray 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hom and Murray 2014)
Three authors: (Acuña, López-Urrutia, and Colin 2011)
4 or more authors: (He et al. 2013)

About the journal

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