How to format your references using the Central Asian Survey citation style

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

Ingebritsen, Steven E. 2012. “Geochemistry. Modeling the Formation of Porphyry-Copper Ores.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 338 (6114): 1551–1552.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boyd, Robert W., and Daniel J. Gauthier. 2009. “Controlling the Velocity of Light Pulses.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 326 (5956): 1074–1077.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mastrobuono-Battisti, Alessandra, Hagai B. Perets, and Sean N. Raymond. 2015. “A Primordial Origin for the Compositional Similarity between the Earth and the Moon.” Nature 520 (7546): 212–215.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kee, Kehkooi, Vanessa T. Angeles, Martha Flores, Ha Nam Nguyen, and Renee A. Reijo Pera. 2009. “Human DAZL, DAZ and BOULE Genes Modulate Primordial Germ-Cell and Haploid Gamete Formation.” Nature 462 (7270): 222–225.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quéguiner, Bernard. 2016. The Biogeochemical Cycle of Silicon in the Ocean. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sugano, Kentaro, Hironori Yamamoto, and Hiroto Kita, eds. 2006. Double-Balloon Endoscopy: Theory and Practice. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Bernardini, D., D. Muñoz de la Peña, A. Bemporad, and E. Frazzoli. 2009. “Simultaneous Optimal Control and Discrete Stochastic Sensor Selection.” In Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control: 12th International Conference, HSCC 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 13-15, 2009. Proceedings, edited by Rupak Majumdar and Paulo Tabuada, 61–75. 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 Central Asian Survey.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. “Orcas Documented Hunting Rare Beaked Whales For The First Time Ever.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/orcas-documented-hunting-rare-beaked-whales-for-the-first-time-ever/.

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. Airline Competition: Pending Legislation Helps to Address Serious Competitive Problems. T-RCED-91-54. 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

Thompson, Thomas. 2010. “Assessing the Determinants of Information Technology Adoption in Jamaica’s Public Sector Using the Technology Acceptance Model.” 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

Williams, John. 2017. “TV, Pre-Golden Age.” New York Times, September 8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ingebritsen 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Ingebritsen 2012; Boyd and Gauthier 2009).

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

Two authors: (Boyd and Gauthier 2009)
Three authors: (Mastrobuono-Battisti, Perets, and Raymond 2015)
4 or more authors: (Kee et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Central Asian Survey
Abbreviation	Centr. Asian Surv.
ISSN (print)	0263-4937
ISSN (online)	1465-3354
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Development Geography, Planning and Development