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

Pearce, Joshua M. 2012. “Materials Science. Building Research Equipment with Free, Open-Source Hardware.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 337 (6100): 1303–1304.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gautel, Mathias, and Elisabeth Ehler. 2010. “Cell Biology. Gett’N-WASP Stripes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 330 (6010): 1491–1492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lunshof, Jeantine E., George M. Church, and Barbara Prainsack. 2014. “Information Access. Raw Personal Data: Providing Access.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 343 (6169): 373–374.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gonçalves, Gil, Mercedes Vila, Igor Bdikin, Alicia de Andrés, Nazanin Emami, Rute A. S. Ferreira, Luís D. Carlos, José Grácio, and Paula A. A. P. Marques. 2014. “Breakdown into Nanoscale of Graphene Oxide: Confined Hot Spot Atomic Reduction and Fragmentation.” Scientific Reports 4 (October): 6735.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wystup, Uwe. 2006. FX Options and Structured Products. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Rebizant, Waldemar. 2011. Digital Signal Processing in Power System Protection and Control. Edited by Janusz Szafran and Andrzej Wiszniewski. Signals and Communication Technology. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gregory, Derek. 2015. “Gabriel’s Map: Cartography and Corpography in Modern War.” In Geographies of Knowledge and Power, edited by Peter Meusburger, Derek Gregory, and Laura Suarsana, 89–121. Knowledge and Space. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2016. “Watch Live As SpaceX Launches Its Next Rocket And Attempts Its Third Barge Landing.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-spacex-launches-its-next-rocket-and-attempts-its-third-barge-landing/.

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. 1993. B-2 Costs. NSIAD-93-253R. 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

Faynblut, Victoria. 2016. “College Access: A Case Study of Latino Charter School Students and Their K-16 Pathways.” Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Vecsey, George. 2010. “A Continent’s Hopes Are Swatted Away.” New York Times, July 3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pearce 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Pearce 2012; Gautel and Ehler 2010).

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

Two authors: (Gautel and Ehler 2010)
Three authors: (Lunshof, Church, and Prainsack 2014)
4 or more authors: (Gonçalves et al. 2014)

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