How to format your references using the Contemporary South Asia citation style

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

Koenig, R. 2000. “EUROPEAN SCIENCE: Urgent Call for Research Overhaul.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 289 (5479): 523a–524a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zebrowitz, Leslie A., and Joann M. Montepare. 2005. “Psychology. Appearance DOES Matter.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 308 (5728): 1565–1566.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu, Anwei, Changqin Ding, and Yang Tian. 2013. “A Two-Photon Ratiometric Fluorescence Probe for Cupric Ions in Live Cells and Tissues.” Scientific Reports 3 (October): 2933.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wang, X. B., X. Yang, J. B. Nicholas, and L. S. Wang. 2001. “Bulk-like Features in the Photoemission Spectra of Hydrated Doubly Charged Anion Clusters.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 294 (5545): 1322–1325.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Randall, Julian F. 2006. Designing Indoor Solar Products. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Brevini, Tiziana A. L. 2013. Gametogenesis, Early Embryo Development and Stem Cell Derivation. Edited by Georgia Pennarossa. SpringerBriefs in Stem Cells. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Brusch, Lutz, Perla Del Conte-Zerial, Yannis Kalaidzidis, Jochen Rink, Bianca Habermann, Marino Zerial, and Andreas Deutsch. 2007. “Protein Domains of GTPases on Membranes: Do They Rely on Turing’s Mechanism?” In Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Volume I: Cellular Biophysics, Regulatory Networks, Development, Biomedicine, and Data Analysis, edited by Andreas Deutsch, Lutz Brusch, Helen Byrne, Gerda de Vries, and Hanspeter Herzel, 33–46. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

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 South Asia.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2015. “Crows Can’t Get The Hang Of Teamwork.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/crows-cant-get-hang-teamwork/.

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. 1999. Federal Communications Commission: Review of the Commission’s Regulations Governing Attribution Ownership Rule. OGC-00-1. 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

Banerjee, Sayanti. 2013. “A Mathematical Model for the Transition in Firing Patterns across Puberty of a Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Neuron.” Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

Sisario, Ben. 2016. “Shawn Mendes, at 18, Scores Second No. 1.” New York Times, October 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koenig 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Koenig 2000; Zebrowitz and Montepare 2005).

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

Two authors: (Zebrowitz and Montepare 2005)
Three authors: (Zhu, Ding, and Tian 2013)
4 or more authors: (Wang et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Contemporary South Asia
Abbreviation	Contemp. South Asia
ISSN (print)	0958-4935
ISSN (online)	1469-364X
Scope	Development Geography, Planning and Development Political Science and International Relations