How to format your references using the Asian Philosophy citation style

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

Koen, D. (2005). Nuts and bolts. International ventures. Nature, 434(7034), 804.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ryan, K. K., & Seeley, R. J. (2013). Physiology. Food as a hormone. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6122), 918–919.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dwyer, G., Dushoff, J., & Yee, S. H. (2004). The combined effects of pathogens and predators on insect outbreaks. Nature, 430(6997), 341–345.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Hsu, G. W., Ober, M., Carell, T., & Beese, L. S. (2004). Error-prone replication of oxidatively damaged DNA by a high-fidelity DNA polymerase. Nature, 431(7005), 217–221.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leroy, L. (2016). Eyestrain Reduction in Stereoscopy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vissers, C. A. (2016). Architectural Design: Conception and Specification of Interactive Systems (L. F. Pires, D. A. C. Quartel, & M. van Sinderen, Eds.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Egger, C., Dirnhofer, R., & Grabherr, S. (2016). Postmortem Angiography and the Thanatology of the Vascular System. In S. Grabherr, J. M. Grimm, & A. Heinemann (Eds.), Atlas of Postmortem Angiography (pp. 71–79). Springer International Publishing.

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 Philosophy.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, October 15). Earth’s Magnetic Pole Could Reverse Within A Single Human Lifetime. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/magnetic-pole-reversal-can-take-less-lifetime/

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. (1991). Mass Transit Grants: Development Time Frames for Selected UMTA Projects (RCED-91-184FS). 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

Fresolone, C. (2012). The pedagogical use of Gerald Near’s “Chantworks” [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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, M. (2010, September 23). The Air Down There Soothes Feet. New York Times, E9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koen, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Koen, 2005; Ryan & Seeley, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ryan & Seeley, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Hsu et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asian Philosophy
ISSN (print)	0955-2367
ISSN (online)	1469-2961
Scope	Philosophy Religious studies