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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Wigley, T. M. L. 2006. “A Combined Mitigation/Geoengineering Approach to Climate Stabilization.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 314 (5798): 452–454.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fauci, Anthony S., and Hilary D. Marston. 2015. “PUBLIC HEALTH. Toward an HIV Vaccine: A Scientific Journey.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 349 (6246): 386–387.

A journal article with 3 authors

Irie, M., S. Kobatake, and M. Horichi. 2001. “Reversible Surface Morphology Changes of a Photochromic Diarylethene Single Crystal by Photoirradiation.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 291 (5509): 1769–1772.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bradshaw, G. A., Allan N. Schore, Janine L. Brown, Joyce H. Poole, and Cynthia J. Moss. 2005. “Elephant Breakdown.” Nature 433 (7028): 807.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Evans, Robert. 2010. Seven Secrets of the Savvy School Leader. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bass.

An edited book

Pehnt, Martin. 2006. Micro Cogeneration: Towards Decentralized Energy Systems. Edited by Barbara Praetorius, Katja Schumacher, Corinna Fischer, Lambert Schneider, Martin Cames, and Jan-Peter Voß. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Crowston, Kevin, and Ivan Shamshurin. 2016. “Core-Periphery Communication and the Success of Free/Libre Open Source Software Projects.” In Open Source Systems: Integrating Communities: 12th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference, OSS 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 30 - June 2, 2016, Proceedings, edited by Kevin Crowston, Imed Hammouda, Björn Lundell, Gregorio Robles, Jonas Gamalielsson, and Juho Lindman, 45–56. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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, Elise. 2014. “Volcano Eruptions In Alaska Could Cause Trans-Atlantic Chaos For Airlines.” IFLScience, IFLScience, November 20. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/volcano-eruptions-alaska-could-cause-trans-atlantic-chaos-airlines/.

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. 2004. Student Loan Programs: Lower Interest Rates and Higher Loan Volume Have Increased Federal Consolidation Loan Costs. GAO-04-568T. 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

Boudreau, Paul Davis. 2015. “Orthogonality in Natural Products Workflows.” Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego.

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

Gordon, Michael R. 2012. “Iran’s Master Of Iraq Chaos Still Vexes U.S.” New York Times, October 3, 2012.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wigley 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Wigley 2006; Fauci and Marston 2015).

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

Two authors: (Fauci and Marston 2015)
Three authors: (Irie, Kobatake, and Horichi 2001)
4 or more authors: (Bradshaw et al. 2005)

About the journal

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