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

Sassen, Kenneth. 2005. Meteorology: dusty ice clouds over Alaska. Nature 434: 456.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roth, Anna, and Sven Diederichs. 2015. Molecular biology: Rap and chirp about X inactivation. Nature 521: 170–171.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tsukahara, Tatsuya, Yuji Tanno, and Yoshinori Watanabe. 2010. Phosphorylation of the CPC by Cdk1 promotes chromosome bi-orientation. Nature 467: 719–723.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kerry, Philip S., Sankar Mohan, Rupert J. M. Russell, Nicole Bance, Masahiro Niikura, and B. Mario Pinto. 2013. Structural basis for a class of nanomolar influenza A neuraminidase inhibitors. Scientific reports 3: 2871.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sedivy, Julie, and Greg Carlson. 2011. Sold on Language. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lay, Gunter, ed. 2014. Servitization in Industry. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hühnerfuss, Heinrich. 2006. Basic physicochemical principles of monomolecular sea slicks and crude oil spills. In Marine Surface Films: Chemical Characteristics, Influence on Air-Sea Interactions and Remote Sensing, ed. Martin Gade, Heinrich Hühnerfuss, and Gerald M. Korenowski, 21–35. 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 International Journal of Dharma Studies.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2014. Fossil of Earliest Bird Pollinator Found. IFLScience. IFLScience. May 28.

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. 1972. Administration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 in the Michigan and Ohio State Departments of Education. 088953. 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

Zellner, Kathleen M. 2008. An examination of grade distribution patterns and grade inflation at a baccalaureate nursing program. 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

Herrman, John. 2017. Platform Companies Are Becoming More Powerful — but What Exactly Do They Want? New York Times, March 21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sassen 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Sassen 2005; Roth and Diederichs 2015).

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

Two authors: (Roth and Diederichs 2015)
Three or more authors: (Kerry et al. 2013)

About the journal

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