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

Gershon, Diane. 2004. “Probing Real-Time Protein Interactions.” Nature 432 (7014): 249.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brecht, Michael, and Dietmar Schmitz. 2008. “Neuroscience. Rules of Plasticity.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 319 (5859): 39–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lohse, D., B. Schmitz, and M. Versluis. 2001. “Snapping Shrimp Make Flashing Bubbles.” Nature 413 (6855): 477–478.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mills, L. Scott, Eugenia V. Bragina, Alexander V. Kumar, Marketa Zimova, Diana J. R. Lafferty, Jennifer Feltner, Brandon M. Davis, et al. 2018. “Winter Color Polymorphisms Identify Global Hot Spots for Evolutionary Rescue from Climate Change.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 359 (6379): 1033–1036.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooke, Roger. 2007. Classical Algebra: Its Nature, Origins, and Uses. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Greve, Ralf. 2009. Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers. Edited by Heinz Blatter. Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mehling, Harald, and Luisa F. Cabeza. 2008. “Heat Transfer Basics.” In Heat and Cold Storage with PCM: An up to Date Introduction into Basics and Applications, edited by Luisa F. Cabeza, 105–136. Heat and Mass Transfer. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2017. “This NASA Drone Could Fly Across The Surface Of Mars.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/this-nasa-drone-could-fly-across-the-surface-of-mars/.

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. 1996. States’ Average College Tuition. HEHS-96-213R. 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

Dasari, Rohith Abhishek. 2016. “Automatic Driving System by Recognizing Road Signs Using Digital Image Processing.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Brantley, Ben. 2016. “Strangers Arrive, and the Desert Blooms.” New York Times, December 9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon 2004; Brecht and Schmitz 2008).

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

Two authors: (Brecht and Schmitz 2008)
Three authors: (Lohse, Schmitz, and Versluis 2001)
4 or more authors: (Mills et al. 2018)

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