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

Rowley, Janet D. 2013. “Genetics. A Story of Swapped Ends.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 340 (6139): 1412–1413.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jordan, Kenneth D., and Mark A. Johnson. 2010. “Chemistry. Downsizing the Hydrated Electron’s Lair.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 329 (5987): 42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nuth, J. A., 3rd, H. G. Hill, and G. Kletetschka. 2000. “Determining the Ages of Comets from the Fraction of Crystalline Dust.” Nature 406 (6793): 275–276.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kumar, Pradeep, K. Thor Wikfeldt, Daniel Schlesinger, Lars G. M. Pettersson, and H. Eugene Stanley. 2013. “The Boson Peak in Supercooled Water.” Scientific Reports 3: 1980.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barton, Larry L., and Diana E. Northup. 2011. Microbial Ecology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Aldrich-Wright, Janice, ed. 2011. Metallointercalators: Synthesis and Techniques to Probe Their Interactions with Biomolecules. Vienna: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yehudai, Amiram. 2010. “Perspective on Computer Science Education.” In Teaching Fundamentals Concepts of Informatics: 4th International Conference on Informatics in Secondary Schools - Evolution and Perspectives, ISSEP 2010, Zurich, Switzerland, January 13-15, 2010. Proceedings, edited by Juraj Hromkovič, Richard Královič, and Jan Vahrenhold, 35–35. 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

Luntz, Stephen. 2016. “Thinking Power Grows Faster Than Brain Size.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/thinking-power-grows-faster-than-brain-size/.

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. 1972. Reply to the Health, Education, and Welfare on Recommendations Made in the GAO Report to the Congress. B-117604(7). 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

Walters, Linda Ann. 2015. “A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Employee Attitudes, Awareness, and Satisfaction with Regard to the University Employee Wellness Program.” Doctoral dissertation, St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Kelly, Kate, and Alexandra Stevenson. 2017. “Soros Fund Plucks Executive From UBS to Lead Investing.” New York Times, January 31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rowley 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Rowley 2013; Jordan and Johnson 2010).

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

Two authors: (Jordan and Johnson 2010)
Three authors: (Nuth, Hill, and Kletetschka 2000)
4 or more authors: (Kumar et al. 2013)

About the journal

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