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

Pratt, D. W. (2002). Molecular dynamics. Biomolecules see the light. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5577), 2347–2348.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brawley, C., & Matunis, E. (2004). Regeneration of male germline stem cells by spermatogonial dedifferentiation in vivo. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5675), 1331–1334.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zaimi, K., Ishak, A., & Pop, I. (2014). Boundary layer flow and heat transfer over a nonlinearly permeable stretching/shrinking sheet in a nanofluid. Scientific Reports, 4, 4404.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hale, M. L., Lurz, P. W., Shirley, M. D., Rushton, S., Fuller, R. M., & Wolff, K. (2001). Impact of landscape management on the genetic structure of red squirrel populations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5538), 2246–2248.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Niemi, V., & Nyberg, K. (2006). Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Security. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Li, H. (Ed.). (2014). Radiology of HIV/AIDS: A Practical Approach. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Knoop, V. L., van Zuylen, H. J., & Hoogendoorn, S. P. (2009). Microscopic Traffic Behaviour near Incidents. In W. H. K. Lam, S. C. Wong, & H. K. Lo (Eds.), Transportation and Traffic Theory 2009: Golden Jubilee: Papers selected for presentation at ISTTT18, a peer reviewed series since 1959 (pp. 75–97). Springer US.

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, June 24). Paleo Diet? Science Has Moved On Since The Stone Age. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/paleo-diet-science-has-moved-stone-age/

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. (2015). Federal Transit Benefit Program: DOT’s Debit-Card Internal Controls Are Designed to Be Consistent with Federal Standards (GAO-15-497). 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

Arnold, J. K. (2015). An Ecological Model for Health Policy Review: The Integration of New Institutional and Public Choice Theory for Public Policy Assessment [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral 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

Gorman, J. (2016, November 21). Figaro, the Toolmaking Cockatoo. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pratt, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Brawley & Matunis, 2004; Pratt, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Brawley & Matunis, 2004)
Three authors: (Zaimi et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Hale et al., 2001)

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

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