How to format your references using the Bandung: Journal of the Global South citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bandung: Journal of the Global South. 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.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
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
Taubes, G. 2000. ASTRONOMY: Researchers Get Spectrum Bands. Science (New York, N.Y.) 288: 2107–2109.
A journal article with 2 authors
Millum, Joseph, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel. 2007. Ethics. The ethics of international research with abandoned children. Science (New York, N.Y.) 318: 1874–1875.
A journal article with 3 authors
Robison, Bruce H., Kim R. Reisenbichler, and Rob E. Sherlock. 2005. Giant larvacean houses: rapid carbon transport to the deep sea floor. Science (New York, N.Y.) 308: 1609–1611.
A journal article with 11 or more authors
Russo, C., G. Schettini, T. C. Saido, C. Hulette, C. Lippa, L. Lannfelt, B. Ghetti, P. Gambetti, M. Tabaton, and J. K. Teller. 2000. Presenilin-1 mutations in Alzheimer’s disease. Nature 405: 531–532.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Burgess, Mark. 2005. Analytical Network and System Administration. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
An edited book
Revol, Jean-Pierre, Maurice Bourquin, Yacine Kadi, Egil Lillestol, Jean-Christophe de Mestral, and Karel Samec, ed. 2016. Thorium Energy for the World: Proceedings of the ThEC13 Conference, CERN, Globe of Science and Innovation, Geneva, Switzerland, October 27-31, 2013. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
A chapter in an edited book
Toivonen, Marja. 2015. Social Innovations—Manifested in New Services and in New System Level Interactions. In Service Systems Science, ed. Kyoichi Kijima, 83–95. Translational Systems Sciences. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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 Bandung: Journal of the Global South.

Blog post
Davis, Josh. 2017. Paralyzed Man Able To Move His Arm With His Thoughts In World-First Procedure. IFLScience. IFLScience. March 29.

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. 2007. Higher Education: Information Sharing Could Help Institutions Identify and Address Challenges Some Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Students Face. GAO-07-925. 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
Charles, Jean-Gresset. 2017. African American Ninth-Grade Students’ Engagement and Learning in Mathematics: A Case Study of Parent-Teacher Collaboration. Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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
Brantley, Ben. 2017. Wine, Cheese and Polyamory. New York Times, March 21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Taubes 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Taubes 2000; Millum and Emanuel 2007).

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

  • Two authors: (Millum and Emanuel 2007)
  • Three or more authors: (Russo et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal titleBandung: Journal of the Global South
ISSN (online)2198-3534
Scope

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