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

Duncan, Martin. 2009. “Astronomy. Re-Viewing an Old Comet Reservoir.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 325 (5945): 1211–1212.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cirac, Juan Ignacio, and Peter Zoller. 2003. “Physics. How to Manipulate Cold Atoms.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 301 (5630): 176–177.

A journal article with 3 authors

Togashi, Tatsuya, Hironobu Sasaki, and Jin Yoshimura. 2014. “A Geometrical Approach Explains Lake Ball (Marimo) Formations in the Green Alga, Aegagropila Linnaei.” Scientific Reports 4 (January): 3761.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Stone, John O., Gregory A. Balco, David E. Sugden, Marc W. Caffee, Louis C. Sass 3rd, Seth G. Cowdery, and Christine Siddoway. 2003. “Holocene Deglaciation of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299 (5603): 99–102.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg, Steven M. 2010. The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Johnson, M. Eric, ed. 2009. Managing Information Risk and the Economics of Security. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Libkin, Leonid. 2005. “Logics for Unranked Trees: An Overview.” In Automata, Languages and Programming: 32nd International Colloquium, ICALP 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, July 11-15, 2005. Proceedings, edited by Luís Caires, Giuseppe F. Italiano, Luís Monteiro, Catuscia Palamidessi, and Moti Yung, 35–50. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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

Andrew, Danielle. 2015. “How To Make Bismuth Crystals At Home.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 2010. Preliminary Observations on the Potential Effects of the Proposed Performance Rights Act on the Recording and Broadcast Radio Industries. GAO-10-428R. 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

Forshey, Theresa Marie. 2013. “Neural Basis of the Neurological Diagnostic Power of Vibrotactile Sensory Testing.” Doctoral dissertation, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Walsh, Mary Williams. 2010. “As Payouts Rise, New Tactics By the U.S. Pension Insurer.” New York Times, November 16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Duncan 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Duncan 2009; Cirac and Zoller 2003).

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

Two authors: (Cirac and Zoller 2003)
Three authors: (Togashi, Sasaki, and Yoshimura 2014)
4 or more authors: (Stone et al. 2003)

About the journal

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