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

Lindley, D. 2001. Questions of direction. Nature 410: 305.

A journal article with 2 authors

de Graaf, Joost, and Liberato Manna. 2012. Materials science. A roadmap for the assembly of polyhedral particles. Science (New York, N.Y.) 337: 417–418.

A journal article with 3 authors

de Jong, Peter W., Joop C. van Lenteren, and C. Lidwien Raak-van den Berg. 2013. Comment on “Invasive harlequin ladybird carries biological weapons against native competitors.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 341: 1342.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zeineh, Michael M., Stephen A. Engel, Paul M. Thompson, and Susan Y. Bookheimer. 2003. Dynamics of the hippocampus during encoding and retrieval of face-name pairs. Science (New York, N.Y.) 299: 577–580.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saint-Dizier, Patrick. 2014. Musical Rhetoric. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ventura, Hector O., ed. 2016. Pharmacologic Trends of Heart Failure. Current Cardiovascular Therapy. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Matoušek, Jiří. 2014. String graphs and separators. In Geometry, Structure and Randomness in Combinatorics, ed. Jiří Matoušek, Jaroslav Nešetřil, and Marco Pellegrini, 61–97. Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore.

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

Andrews, Robin. 2017. America’s Cicadas Are Mysteriously Appearing Four Years Early. IFLScience. IFLScience. May 23.

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. 2007. Telecommunications: Preliminary Information on Media Ownership. GAO-08-330R. 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

Lorentz, John. 2009. The effect of requirements prioritization on avionics system conceptual design. Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Yablonsky, Linda. 2012. A Vote for Small. New York Times, September 2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lindley 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Lindley 2001; de Graaf and Manna 2012).

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

Two authors: (de Graaf and Manna 2012)
Three or more authors: (Zeineh et al. 2003)

About the journal

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

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