How to format your references using the Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Beard, C. 2002. “Paleontology. East of Eden at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 295/5562 (2002), 2028–2029.

A journal article with 2 authors

Custance, O. and S. Morita 2008. “Materials science. How to move an atom,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 319/5866 (2008), 1051–1052.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, C., T. Zhang, and D. I. Goldman 2013. “A terradynamics of legged locomotion on granular media,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 339/6126 (2013), 1408–1412.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Skop, A. R., H. Liu, J. Yates 3rd, B. J. Meyer, and R. Heald 2004. “Dissection of the mammalian midbody proteome reveals conserved cytokinesis mechanisms,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 305/5680 (2004), 61–66.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adhikari, S. K. 2005. Variational Principles and the Numerical Solution of Scattering Problems (Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2005).

An edited book

Barreira, L. 2013. Dynamical Systems: An Introduction, ed. C. Valls, Universitext (London: Springer, 2013).

A chapter in an edited book

Atapattu, S., C. Tellambura, and H. Jiang 2014. “Diversity Techniques and Cooperative Networks,” in C. Tellambura and H. Jiang, eds., Energy Detection for Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio, SpringerBriefs in Computer Science (New York, NY: Springer, 2014), 63–83.

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 Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin.

Blog post

Hale, T. A Historic NASA Lunar Rover Was Sold For Scrap In Alabama IFLScience (IFLScience, 2015) <https://www.iflscience.com/space/historic-nasa-lunar-rover-was-sold-scrap-alabama/>, accessed 30 October 2018.

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 1981. Social Security Needs To Better Plan, Develop, and Implement Its Major ADP Systems Redesign Projects ( No. HRD-81-47) (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Zhang, H. 2008. Studies of Zeolite-Based Artificial Photosynthetic Systems, Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University (2008).

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

Turkewitz, J. 2014. “Language Barrier Continues to Thwart Victims of Crimes,” New York Times (May 12, 2014), A14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin
ISSN (print)	2410-0951
Scope