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

Brock, Joel D. 2007. “Chemistry. Watching Atoms Move.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 315 (5812): 609–610.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gantz, Valentino M., and Ethan Bier. 2015. “Genome Editing. The Mutagenic Chain Reaction: A Method for Converting Heterozygous to Homozygous Mutations.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 348 (6233): 442–444.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lavine, Marc, Megan Frisk, and Elizabeth Pennisi. 2012. “Biomaterials. Introduction.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 338 (6109): 899.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lynn, Audrey, Kara E. Koehler, Luann Judis, Ernest R. Chan, Jonathan P. Cherry, Stuart Schwartz, Allen Seftel, Patricia A. Hunt, and Terry J. Hassold. 2002. “Covariation of Synaptonemal Complex Length and Mammalian Meiotic Exchange Rates.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5576): 2222–2225.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ursone, Pierino. 2015. How to Calculate Options Prices and Their Greeks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Zeng, Zhu. 2015. Dendritic Cells: Biophysics, Tumor Microenvironment and Chinese Traditional Medicine. Edited by Xiaofeng Xu and Dan Chen. SpringerBriefs in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Herva, Vesa-Pekka. 2012. “Spirituality and the Material World in Post-Medieval Europe.” In Archaeology of Spiritualities, edited by Kathryn Rountree, Christine Morris, and Alan A. D. Peatfield, 71–85. New York, NY: 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

Davis, Josh. 2016. “Ants Have Been Cultivating Plants In Fiji For Millions Of Years.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ants-have-been-cultivating-plants-in-fiji-for-millions-of-years/.

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. 1977. Reorganization of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Western Test Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. FPCD-77-65. 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

Ryan, Holly Lynn. 2009. “Normalizing Happiness: The Rhetoric of Depression in Direct -to -Consumer Advertising.” Doctoral dissertation, Tucson, AZ: 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

St. John Kelly, Erin. 1997. “With Historic Brownstone Gone, Is Development at Hand?” New York Times, November 9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brock 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Brock 2007; Gantz and Bier 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gantz and Bier 2015)
Three authors: (Lavine, Frisk, and Pennisi 2012)
4 or more authors: (Lynn et al. 2002)

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