How to format your references using the Contemporary Buddhism citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Contemporary Buddhism. 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

Grier, David G. 2003. “A Revolution in Optical Manipulation.” Nature 424 (6950): 810–816.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sandalow, D. B., and I. A. Bowles. 2001. “Climate Change. Fundamentals of Treaty-Making on Climate Change.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 292 (5523): 1839–1840.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin, Hui-Kuan, Stephan Bergmann, and Pier Paolo Pandolfi. 2004. “Cytoplasmic PML Function in TGF-Beta Signalling.” Nature 431 (7005): 205–211.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bahrami, M., S. Donadi, L. Ferialdi, A. Bassi, C. Curceanu, A. Di Domenico, and B. C. Hiesmayr. 2013. “Are Collapse Models Testable with Quantum Oscillating Systems? The Case of Neutrinos, Kaons, Chiral Molecules.” Scientific Reports 3: 1952.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geotechni, K. Laackmann, H. Balthaus, O. Braach, W-D Friebel, A. Hettler, B. Maidl, et al. 2015. Taschenbuch Für Den Tunnelbau 2015. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Chatterjee, Deen K., ed. 2011. Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Sandberg, Rickard. 2014. “Least Absolute Deviation Based Unit Root Tests in Smooth Transition Type of Models.” In Advances in Non-Linear Economic Modeling: Theory and Applications, edited by Frauke Schleer-van Gellecom, 141–166. Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Contemporary Buddhism.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. 2016. “Women Are Far More Anxious Than Men – Here’s The Science.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/women-are-far-more-anxious-than-men-heres-the-science/.

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. The National School Lunch Program: Is It Working? PAD-77-6. 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

Clavio, Galen. 2008. “Uses and Gratifications of Internet Collegiate Sport Message Board Users.” Doctoral dissertation, Bloomington, IN: Indiana 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

Kenigsberg, Ben. 2017. “Film Series.” New York Times, September 14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grier 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Grier 2003; Sandalow and Bowles 2001).

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

Two authors: (Sandalow and Bowles 2001)
Three authors: (Lin, Bergmann, and Pandolfi 2004)
4 or more authors: (Bahrami et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Contemporary Buddhism
ISSN (print)	1463-9947
ISSN (online)	1476-7953
Scope