How to format your references using the ScienceAsia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ScienceAsia. 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

Coughlin SR (2000) Thrombin signalling and protease-activated receptors. Nature 407, 258–64.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ticozzi F, Viola L (2014) Quantum resources for purification and cooling: fundamental limits and opportunities. Sci Rep 4, 5192.

A journal article with 3 authors

Crespo-Hernández CE, Cohen B, Kohler B (2005) Base stacking controls excited-state dynamics in A.T DNA. Nature 436, 1141–4.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Erhard KF Jr, Stonaker JL, Parkinson SE, Lim JP, Hale CJ, Hollick JB (2009) RNA polymerase IV functions in paramutation in Zea mays. Science 323, 1201–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnson MD (2016) Great Myths of Intimate Relationships, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kaufman HL, Wolchok JD eds (2007) General Principles of Tumor Immunotherapy: Basic and Clinical Applications of Tumor Immunology, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Saif H, He Y, Fernandez M, Alani H (2014) Adapting Sentiment Lexicons Using Contextual Semantics for Sentiment Analysis of Twitter. In: Presutti V, et al. (eds) The Semantic Web: ESWC 2014 Satellite Events: ESWC 2014 Satellite Events, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 54–63.

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 ScienceAsia.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Tomb of Ancient, Unknown Queen Discovered In Egypt. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tomb-unknown-egyptian-queen-discovered-egypt/ [Accessed October 30, 2018].

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 (2008) Health Information Technology: HHS Is Pursuing Efforts to Advance Nationwide Implementation, but Has Not Yet Completed a National Strategy, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Rhode JF (2008) Interaction equivalency in self-paced online learning environments: An exploration of learner preferences. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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 M (2010) Embraceable Saris. New York Times, E9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	ScienceAsia
Abbreviation	Sci. Asia.
ISSN (print)	1513-1874
Scope	Multidisciplinary