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

Smith O (2001) Development. Nota bene: a SAC of crumbs and stardust. Science 294, 2498.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tomasello M, Call J (2011) Methodological challenges in the study of primate cognition. Science 334, 1227–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stevens RC, Yokoyama S, Wilson IA (2001) Global efforts in structural genomics. Science 294, 89–92.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Konhauser KO, Lalonde SV, Planavsky NJ, Pecoits E, Lyons TW, Mojzsis SJ, Rouxel OJ, Barley ME, et al (2011) Aerobic bacterial pyrite oxidation and acid rock drainage during the Great Oxidation Event. Nature 478, 369–73.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goossens F (2015) How to Implement Market Models Using VBA, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Damodaran VB (2016) Biomedical Polymers: Synthesis and Processing, Bhatnagar D, Murthy NS (eds), Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Hunt JE, Wynn RB, Croudace IW (2015) Identification, Correlation and Origin of Multistage Landslide Events in Volcaniclastic Turbidites in the Moroccan Turbidite System. In: Croudace IW, Rothwell RG (eds) Micro-XRF Studies of Sediment Cores: Applications of a Non-Destructive Tool for the Environmental Sciences, Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 147–72.

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

Davis J (2015) Global Marine Populations Have Halved Since 1970. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/global-marine-populations-have-halved-1970/ [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) Airline Industry: Potential Mergers and Acquisitions Driven by Financial and Competitive Pressures, 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

Quiros PQ (2014) SNR estimation and jamming detection techniques using wavelets. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vecsey G (2011) Where Many Things Besides the Islanders Need Fixing. New York Times, SP9.

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

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