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

Cale, C. M. (2015). Forensic DNA evidence is not infallible. Nature, 526(7575), 611.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tang, Y., & Cohen, A. E. (2011). Enhanced enantioselectivity in excitation of chiral molecules by superchiral light. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6027), 333–336.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alston, J. M., Beddow, J. M., & Pardey, P. G. (2009). Agriculture. Agricultural research, productivity, and food prices in the long run. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5945), 1209–1210.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Bouarab, K., Melton, R., Peart, J., Baulcombe, D., & Osbourn, A. (2002). A saponin-detoxifying enzyme mediates suppression of plant defences. Nature, 418(6900), 889–892.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Armajani, J. (2011). Modern Islamist Movements. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Lambek, N. C. S., Claeys, P., Wong, A., & Brilmayer, L. (Eds.). (2014). Rethinking Food Systems: Structural Challenges, New Strategies and the Law. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Einarsdóttir, D. M., Arnaldsson, A., Óskarsson, F., & Jónsson, H. (2012). Path Optimization with Application to Tunneling. In K. Jónasson (Ed.), Applied Parallel and Scientific Computing: 10th International Conference, PARA 2010, Reykjavík, Iceland, June 6-9, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (pp. 45–55). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, August 11). Graphene Is Missing Ingredient To Help Supercharge Batteries For Life On The Move. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/graphene-missing-ingredient-help-supercharge-batteries-life-move/

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. (2016). Highlights of a Forum: Data and Analytics Innovation: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges (GAO-16-659SP). 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

Ayres, R. (2017). Optimization of a Novel Oxy-Michael Ugi-Smiles Reaction [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Poniewozik, J., & Hale, M. (2017, May 17). Ahead of Its Time? Let’s Look Back. New York Times, AR29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cale, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Cale, 2015; Tang & Cohen, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Tang & Cohen, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Bouarab et al., 2002)

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