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

Gershon, D. 2000. “Crossing the divide between theory and practice,” Nature, 404/6775 (2000), 316.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sheldon, B. C. and M. Mangel 2014. “Behavioural ecology: Love thy neighbour,” Nature, 512/7515 (2014), 381–382.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oppo, D. W., J. F. McManus, and J. L. Cullen 2003. “Palaeo-oceanography: Deepwater variability in the Holocene epoch,” Nature, 422/6929 (2003), 277.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sullivan, N. J., T. W. Geisbert, J. B. Geisbert, L. Xu, Z.-Y. Yang, M. Roederer, R. A. Koup, P. B. Jahrling, and G. J. Nabel 2003. “Accelerated vaccination for Ebola virus haemorrhagic fever in non-human primates,” Nature, 424/6949 (2003), 681–684.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hinkelmann, K. and O. Kempthorne 2005. Design and Analysis of Experiments: Advanced Experimental Design, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005).

An edited book

Sidorenko, A., ed., 2011. Fundamentals of Superconducting Nanoelectronics, NanoScience and Technology (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011).

A chapter in an edited book

Dencker, N. 2009. “The Solvability and Subellipticity of Systems of Pseudodifferential Operators,” in A. Bove, D. Del Santo, and M. K. V. Murthy, eds., Advances in Phase Space Analysis of Partial Differential Equations: In Honor of Ferruccio Colombini’s 60th Birthday (Boston, MA: Birkhäuser, 2009), 73–94.

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

Andrew, D. How To Protect Your Private Data When You Travel To The United States IFLScience (IFLScience, 2017) <https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-to-protect-your-private-data-when-you-travel-to-the-united-states/>, 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 2008. Aviation Safety: FAA Has Taken Steps to Determine That It Has Made Correct Medical Certification Decisions ( No. GAO-08-997) (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Adams, A. W. 2013. Shepherd leadership of Church of God pastors and how this relates to ministerial effectiveness, Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix (2013).

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

Hollander, S. 2000. “On Way to Rout, Liberty Wins at the Free-Throw Line,” New York Times (June 19, 2000), D4.

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
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