How to format your references using the Journal of Contemporary Asia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Contemporary Asia. 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	Download the output style file
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

Chisholm, S. W. 2000. “Stirring Times in the Southern Ocean.” Nature 407 (6805): 685–687.

A journal article with 2 authors

Doebeli, Michael, and Ulf Dieckmann. 2003. “Speciation along Environmental Gradients.” Nature 421 (6920): 259–264.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wittkopp, Patricia J., Belinda K. Haerum, and Andrew G. Clark. 2004. “Evolutionary Changes in Cis and Trans Gene Regulation.” Nature 430 (6995): 85–88.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Colomer-de-Simón, Pol, M. Ángeles Serrano, Mariano G. Beiró, J. Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin, and Marián Boguñá. 2013. “Deciphering the Global Organization of Clustering in Real Complex Networks.” Scientific Reports 3: 2517.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mynbaev, Kairat T. 2011. Short-Memory Linear Processes and Econometric Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Buszewski, Boguslaw, Ewelina Dziubakiewicz, and Michal Szumski, eds. 2013. Electromigration Techniques: Theory and Practice. Vol. 105. Springer Series in Chemical Physics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rosen, Alyx, Sarit Itenberg, and Adam Friedman. 2013. “Histamine-Mediated Emergencies.” In Buka’s Emergencies in Dermatology, edited by Bobby Buka, Annemarie Uliasz, and Karthik Krishnamurthy, 57–82. New York, NY: 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 Contemporary Asia.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “The Search of Life Beneath the Ice: Why We’re Going Back to Europa.” 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. 1995. School Safety: Promising Initiatives for Addressing School Violence. HEHS-95-106. 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

Honnold, Jeffrey Lehman. 2012. “Toward a Working Theory of Neurorhetorics.” Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Kishkovsky, Sophia. 1999. “Back to America, Trailing His Legend.” New York Times, January 10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chisholm 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Chisholm 2000; Doebeli and Dieckmann 2003).

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

Two authors: (Doebeli and Dieckmann 2003)
Three authors: (Wittkopp, Haerum, and Clark 2004)
4 or more authors: (Colomer-de-Simón et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Contemporary Asia
Abbreviation	J. Contemp. Asia
ISSN (print)	0047-2336
ISSN (online)	1752-7554
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Cultural Studies