How to format your references using the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 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	Download the output style file
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

Schrope, M. 2001. “Criticism Mounts as Bush Backs out of Kyoto Accord.” Nature 410 (6829): 616.

A journal article with 2 authors

Toffelmier, Daniel A., and James A. Tyburczy. 2007. “Electromagnetic Detection of a 410-Km-Deep Melt Layer in the Southwestern United States.” Nature 447 (7147): 991–994.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bell, Fraser I., Iain J. McEwen, and Christopher Viney. 2002. “Fibre Science: Supercontraction Stress in Wet Spider Dragline.” Nature 416 (6876): 37.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zhang, Zhi-Min, Rui Lu, Pengcheng Wang, Yang Yu, Dongliang Chen, Linfeng Gao, Shuo Liu, et al. 2018. “Structural Basis for DNMT3A-Mediated de Novo DNA Methylation.” Nature 554 (7692): 387–391.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bachmutsky, Alexander. 2010. System Design for Telecommunication Gateways. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Xhafa, Fatos, and Ajith Abraham, eds. 2008. Metaheuristics for Scheduling in Industrial and Manufacturing Applications. Vol. 128. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lone, Showkat Ahmad, Abdul Malik, and Jasdeep Chatrath Padaria. 2014. “Applications of Bacillus Thuringiensis for Prevention of Environmental Deterioration.” In Environmental Deterioration and Human Health: Natural and Anthropogenic Determinants, edited by Abdul Malik, Elisabeth Grohmann, and Rais Akhtar, 73–95. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2014. “Infographic Shows The Differences Between The Diseases We Donate To, And The Diseases That Kill Us.” 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. 1978. Farmers Home Administration Needs To Better Plan, Direct, Develop, and Control Its Computer-Based Unified Management Information System. CED-78-68. 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

Mbwiri, Francis I. 2017. “Remedial Math Instruction Intervention: Efficacy of Constructivist Practices on Alternative Students with Disabilities Mathematics Achievement.” Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

(nyt), Sophia Kishkovsky. 2002. “World Briefing | Europe: Belarus: European Official Expelled.” New York Times, September 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schrope 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Schrope 2001; Toffelmier and Tyburczy 2007).

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

Two authors: (Toffelmier and Tyburczy 2007)
Three authors: (Bell, McEwen, and Viney 2002)
4 or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
ISSN (print)	1464-9373
ISSN (online)	1469-8447
Scope	Cultural Studies