How to format your references using the Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences. 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

Schwartz, M. A. (2009). Cell biology. The force is with us. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5914), 588–589.

A journal article with 2 authors

Göndör, A., & Ohlsson, R. (2009). Chromosome crosstalk in three dimensions. Nature, 461(7261), 212–217.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, S.-Y., Hakoshima, T., & Kitano, K. (2013). Structure of the RecQ C-terminal domain of human Bloom syndrome protein. Scientific Reports, 3, 3294.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Shalitin, D., Yang, H., Mockler, T. C., Maymon, M., Guo, H., Whitelam, G. C., & Lin, C. (2002). Regulation of Arabidopsis cryptochrome 2 by blue-light-dependent phosphorylation. Nature, 417(6890), 763–767.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lacaze, P. C., & Lacroix, J.-C. (2014). Non-Volatile Memories. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Roth, W.-M. (2013). Science Education during Early Childhood: A Cultural-Historical Perspective (M. I. M. Goulart & K. Plakitsi, Eds.; Vol. 6). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Tisdell, C. (2009). Complex Policy Choices Regarding Agricultural Externalities: Efficiency, Equity and Acceptability. In V. Beckmann & M. Padmanabhan (Eds.), Institutions and Sustainability: Political Economy of Agriculture and the Environment - Essays in Honour of Konrad Hagedorn (pp. 83–106). Springer Netherlands.

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 Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 27). NASA Successfully Tests 3D-Printed Rocket Parts. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/3d-printed-rocket-parts-no-different-traditionally-made-parts/

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. (2003). Computer-Based Patient Records: Short-Term Progress Made, but Much Work Remains to Achieve a Two-Way Data Exchange Between VA and DOD Health Systems (GAO-04-271T). 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

Narang, S. (2013). Use of technology to reduce the occurrence of medication errors in a U.S. hospital: A project report [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Gorman, J. (2016, October 11). Jaws: The Story of the Stag Beetle. New York Times, D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schwartz, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Göndör & Ohlsson, 2009; Schwartz, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Göndör & Ohlsson, 2009)
Three authors: (Kim et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Shalitin et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences
ISSN (print)	2452-3151
Scope