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

Long, S. R. 2015. “Symbiosis: Receptive to infection,” Nature, 523/7560 (2015), 298–299.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blackburn, E. H. and E. S. Epel 2012. “Telomeres and adversity: Too toxic to ignore,” Nature, 490/7419 (2012), 169–171.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burga, A., M. O. Casanueva, and B. Lehner 2011. “Predicting mutation outcome from early stochastic variation in genetic interaction partners,” Nature, 480/7376 (2011), 250–253.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Knorr, W., I. C. Prentice, J. I. House, and E. A. Holland 2005. “Long-term sensitivity of soil carbon turnover to warming,” Nature, 433/7023 (2005), 298–301.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ford, I. 2013. Statistical Physics (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013).

An edited book

Padgham, L. and F. Zambonelli, eds., 2007. Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VII: 7th International Workshop, AOSE 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers, 4405th, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007).

A chapter in an edited book

Lomet, D. 2011. “Transactions: From Local Atomicity to Atomicity in the Cloud,” in C. B. Jones and J. L. Lloyd, eds., Dependable and Historic Computing: Essays Dedicated to Brian Randell on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011), 38–52.

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

Luntz, S. The Black Death May Have Improved Health IFLScience (IFLScience, 2014) <https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/black-death-may-have-improved-health/>, 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 2006. Federal Aviation Administration: An Analysis of the Financial Viability of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund ( No. GAO-06-562T) (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kim, Y. I. 2008. Essays on Volatility Risk, Asset Returns and Consumption-Based Asset Pricing, 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

Cooper, M. 2017. “When the Fire Fades,” New York Times (May 31, 2017), AR1.

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