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

Harris, Jim. 2009. “Soil Microbial Communities and Restoration Ecology: Facilitators or Followers?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 325 (5940): 573–574.

A journal article with 2 authors

Legler, B., and G. Moore. 2000. “East German Academics Faced Unfair Hurdles.” Nature 403 (6766): 130.

A journal article with 3 authors

Neumann, Gabriele, Takeshi Noda, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka. 2009. “Emergence and Pandemic Potential of Swine-Origin H1N1 Influenza Virus.” Nature 459 (7249): 931–939.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kapranov, Philipp, Fatih Ozsolak, Sang Woo Kim, Sylvain Foissac, Doron Lipson, Chris Hart, Steve Roels, et al. 2010. “New Class of Gene-Termini-Associated Human RNAs Suggests a Novel RNA Copying Mechanism.” Nature 466 (7306): 642–646.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bunnell, Tim. 2016. From World City to the World in One City. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Manulis, Mark, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, and Steve Schneider, eds. 2016. Applied Cryptography and Network Security: 14th International Conference, ACNS 2016, Guildford, UK, June 19-22, 2016. Proceedings. Vol. 9696. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Oels, Angela. 2006. “Evaluating Stakeholder Dialogues.” In Stakeholder Dialogues in Natural Resources Management: Theory and Practice, edited by Susanne Stollkleemann and Martin Welp, 117–151. Environmental Science and Engineering. 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 South Asia.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2014. “How ‘Death Stars’ Wipe out Potential Planets.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-death-stars-wipe-out-potential-planets/.

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. 2003. Information Technology: Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys Needs to Institutionalize Key IT Management Disciplines. GAO-03-751. 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

Ladendorff, Marlene Z. 2014. “The Effect of North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection Standards on Bulk Electric System Reliability.” Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Tackett, Michael. 2017. “As Well-Educated Leave, Iowa’s Shift to G.O.P. Is a Matter of Degree.” New York Times, October 14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harris 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Harris 2009; Legler and Moore 2000).

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

Two authors: (Legler and Moore 2000)
Three authors: (Neumann, Noda, and Kawaoka 2009)
4 or more authors: (Kapranov et al. 2010)

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