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

Abbott, A. 2001. Concern raised for missing biologist. Nature 414: 475.

A journal article with 2 authors

Raiborg, Camilla, and Harald Stenmark. 2011. Cell biology. A helix for the final cut. Science (New York, N.Y.) 331: 1533–1534.

A journal article with 3 authors

Long, Stephen B., Patrick J. Casey, and Lorena S. Beese. 2002. Reaction path of protein farnesyltransferase at atomic resolution. Nature 419: 645–650.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yokosaka, Takumi, Hiroyuki Iizuka, Tomoko Yonemura, Daisuke Kondo, Hideyuki Ando, and Taro Maeda. 2014. Alternating images of congruent and incongruent movement creates the illusion of agency. Scientific reports 4: 6201.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tripathi, Nimisha, Raj Shekhar Singh, and Colin D. Hills. 2016. Reclamation of Mine-Impacted Land for Ecosystem Recovery. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Wheeler, Derek S., Hector R. Wong, and Thomas P. Shanley, ed. 2014. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Volume 1: Care of the Critically Ill or Injured Child. 2nd ed. 2014. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mkomwa, S., P. Kaumbutho, and P. Makungu. 2015. Farm Machinery for Conservation Agriculture. In Conservation Agriculture, ed. Muhammad Farooq and Kadambot H. M. Siddique, 109–131. 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 International Journal of Dharma Studies.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2017. What’s The Truth Behind This “13-Pound Monster Frog” Photo? IFLScience. IFLScience. May 29.

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. 1989. Forest Service: Status of Geographic Information System Acquisition. IMTEC-89-27. 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

Avila, Brissa. 2013. Comparison of paternal and maternal involvement in a government funded home-based intervention program: A multivariate analysis of parent gender, child gender and age of the child. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Wagner, James. 2016. Seven More Call-Ups, Four Homers and a Victory. New York Times, September 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott 2001; Raiborg and Stenmark 2011).

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

Two authors: (Raiborg and Stenmark 2011)
Three or more authors: (Yokosaka et al. 2014)

About the journal

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