How to format your references using the South Asian Diaspora citation style

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

McCarty, J. G. 2000. “Durable Catalysts for Cleaner Air.” Nature 403 (6765): 35–36.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ren, Wencai, and Hui-Ming Cheng. 2013. “Materials Science: When Two Is Better than One.” Nature 497 (7450): 448–449.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hill, Michael S., Peter B. Hitchcock, and Ruti Pongtavornpinyo. 2006. “A Linear Homocatenated Compound Containing Six Indium Centers.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 311 (5769): 1904–1907.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Steinmetz, Lars M., Himanshu Sinha, Dan R. Richards, Jamie I. Spiegelman, Peter J. Oefner, John H. McCusker, and Ronald W. Davis. 2002. “Dissecting the Architecture of a Quantitative Trait Locus in Yeast.” Nature 416 (6878): 326–330.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McMillan, Edward J. 2010. Not-for-Profit Budgeting and Financial Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Garcia-Alfaro, Joaquin, Georgios Lioudakis, Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Simon Foley, and William M. Fitzgerald, eds. 2014. Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security: 8th International Workshop, DPM 2013, and 6th International Workshop, SETOP 2013, Egham, UK, September 12-13, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 8247. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Farcas, Emilia, Wolfgang Pree, and Josef Templ. 2006. “Bus Scheduling for TDL Components.” In Architecting Systems with Trustworthy Components: International Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, December 12-17, 2004. Revised Selected Papers, edited by Ralf H. Reussner, Judith A. Stafford, and Clemens A. Szyperski, 71–83. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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 South Asian Diaspora.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. “How Long Would It Take You To Fall Through Earth?” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/how-long-would-it-take-you-to-fall-through-earth/.

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. 1973. Effective Central Control Could Improve DOD’s Ammunition Logistics. B-176139. 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

Iwuagwu, Chinyere I. 2017. “Preventing the Spread of HIV Among Homeless Youth in California.” Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Gustines, George Gene, and Adam W. Kepler. 2011. “Not All Superheroes Are Equal (At Least the Second Time Around).” New York Times, October 1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McCarty 2000).
This sentence cites two references (McCarty 2000; Ren and Cheng 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ren and Cheng 2013)
Three authors: (Hill, Hitchcock, and Pongtavornpinyo 2006)
4 or more authors: (Steinmetz et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	South Asian Diaspora
Abbreviation	S. Asian Diaspora
ISSN (print)	1943-8192
ISSN (online)	1943-8184
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Anthropology Cultural Studies