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

Wadsworth, Patricia. 2003. “Cell Biology. Persistence Pays.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300 (5626): 1675–1677.

A journal article with 2 authors

Arimoto, Tateo, and Yasushi Sato. 2012. “Science and Society. Rebuilding Public Trust in Science for Policy-Making.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 337 (6099): 1176–1177.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ward, Andrew B., Andrej Sali, and Ian A. Wilson. 2013. “Biochemistry. Integrative Structural Biology.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 339 (6122): 913–915.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ferraro, F. R., G. Beccari, E. Dalessandro, B. Lanzoni, A. Sills, R. T. Rood, F. Fusi Pecci, A. I. Karakas, P. Miocchi, and S. Bovinelli. 2009. “Two Distinct Sequences of Blue Straggler Stars in the Globular Cluster M 30.” Nature 462 (7276): 1028–1031.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van Helvoort, Huub. 2006. SDH/SONET Explained in Functional Models. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Nilius, Bernd, Pieter de Tombe, Thomas Gudermann, Reinhard Jahn, Roland Lill, and Ole H. Petersen, eds. 2016. Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Vol. 172. Vol. 172. Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sezer, Volkan, Pınar Boyraz, Ziya Ercan, Çagri Dikilitaş, Hasan Heceoğlu, Alper Öner, Gülay Öke, and Metin Gökaşan. 2014. “Unmanned Ground Vehicle Otonobil: Design, Perception, and Decision Algorithms.” In Smart Mobile In-Vehicle Systems: Next Generation Advancements, edited by Gerhard Schmidt, Huseyin Abut, Kazuya Takeda, and John H. L. Hansen, 47–56. 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. “What Causes Cerebral Palsy And Can It Be Prevented?” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-causes-cerebral-palsy-and-can-it-be-prevented/.

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. Higher Education: Better Management of Federal Grant and Loan Forgiveness Programs for Teachers Needed to Improve Participant Outcomes. GAO-15-314. 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

Peters, Wanda Carter. 2017. “An Evaluation of the Relationship Between Critical Technology Developments and Technology Maturity.” 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

Billard, Mary. 2014. “A Closet Is the Highest Form of Flattery.” New York Times, February 6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wadsworth 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Wadsworth 2003; Arimoto and Sato 2012).

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

Two authors: (Arimoto and Sato 2012)
Three authors: (Ward, Sali, and Wilson 2013)
4 or more authors: (Ferraro et al. 2009)

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