How to format your references using the Journal of Comparative Asian Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Comparative Asian Development. 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

Hogg, P. J. (2006). Composites in armor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5802), 1100–1101.

A journal article with 2 authors

Convey, P., & Stevens, M. I. (2007). Ecology. Antarctic biodiversity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5846), 1877–1878.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pfeiffer, T., Schuster, S., & Bonhoeffer, S. (2001). Cooperation and competition in the evolution of ATP-producing pathways. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5516), 504–507.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pedersen, I. M., Cheng, G., Wieland, S., Volinia, S., Croce, C. M., Chisari, F. V., & David, M. (2007). Interferon modulation of cellular microRNAs as an antiviral mechanism. Nature, 449(7164), 919–922.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Williamson, T. (2013). Identity and Discrimination. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

von Weizsäcker, C. F. (2006). The Structure of Physics (T. Görnitz & H. Lyre, Eds.; Vol. 155). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Hunter, S. M., McCart Reed, A. E., Campbell, I. G., & Gorringe, K. L. (2016). Genomic Analysis. In S. R. Lakhani & S. B. Fox (Eds.), Molecular Pathology in Cancer Research (pp. 83–106). 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 Journal of Comparative Asian Development.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, July 14). CryoSat Reveals Dramatic Ice Loss From Greenland. 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. (1973). Applications Technology Satellite F and G Project (093809). 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

Russo, C. A. (2014). The potential harms of breast cancer screening: estimating the unnecessary surgical diagnosis of benign breast lesions and its impact on quality and cost among insured women younger than 65 years old [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Shpigel, B. (2017, March 24). Gonzaga Gets Closer to an Elusive Berth. New York Times, B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hogg, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Convey & Stevens, 2007; Hogg, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Convey & Stevens, 2007)
Three authors: (Pfeiffer et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Pedersen et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Comparative Asian Development
ISSN (print)	1533-9114
ISSN (online)	2150-5403
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations