How to format your references using the International Journal of Dharma Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Dharma 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	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

Parthasarathi, Ashok. 2003. India: A champion of new technologies. Nature 422: 17–18.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang, Tianming, and Michael N. Shadlen. 2007. Probabilistic reasoning by neurons. Nature 447: 1075–1080.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mitchell, Ross N., Taylor M. Kilian, and David A. D. Evans. 2012. Supercontinent cycles and the calculation of absolute palaeolongitude in deep time. Nature 482: 208–211.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

He, Wei, Tao Zhu, Xiang-Qun Zhang, Hai-Tao Yang, and Zhao-Hua Cheng. 2013. Ultrafast demagnetization enhancement in CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB magnetic tunneling junction driven by spin tunneling current. Scientific reports 3: 2883.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox, Ian, Marie A. Gaudard, and Mia L. Stephens. 2016. Visual Six Sigma, Second Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tsesis, Igor, ed. 2014. Complications in Endodontic Surgery: Prevention, Identification and Management. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Oh, Sanghoun, and Yaochu Jin. 2015. Incremental Approximation Models for Constrained Evolutionary Optimization. In Evolutionary Constrained Optimization, ed. Rituparna Datta and Kalyanmoy Deb, 135–156. Infosys Science Foundation Series. New Delhi: Springer India.

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 International Journal of Dharma Studies.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2015. Why Are Humans So Afraid Of Spiders? IFLScience. IFLScience. April 8.

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. 1998. Information Technology Workers: Employment and Starting Salaries. HEHS-98-159R. 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

Wurster, Karl W. 2010. Management matter? Effects of charcoal production management on woodland regeneration in Senegal. Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Billard, Mary. 2010. Top Hats, Bottom Prices. New York Times, April 15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Parthasarathi 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Parthasarathi 2003; Yang and Shadlen 2007).

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

Two authors: (Yang and Shadlen 2007)
Three or more authors: (He et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Dharma Studies
Abbreviation	Int. J. Dharma Stud.
ISSN (online)	2196-8802
Scope