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

Heremans, Joseph P. 2014. “Thermoelectricity: The Ugly Duckling.” Nature 508 (7496): 327–328.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sinervo, Barry, and Jean Clobert. 2003. “Morphs, Dispersal Behavior, Genetic Similarity, and the Evolution of Cooperation.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300 (5627): 1949–1951.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ruefli-Brasse, Astrid A., Dorothy M. French, and Vishva M. Dixit. 2003. “Regulation of NF-KappaB-Dependent Lymphocyte Activation and Development by Paracaspase.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 302 (5650): 1581–1584.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Alley, Richard B., Peter U. Clark, Philippe Huybrechts, and Ian Joughin. 2005. “Ice-Sheet and Sea-Level Changes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 310 (5747): 456–460.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joseph, Ciby. 2013. Advanced Credit Risk Analysis and Management. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Heilmann, Christian. 2007. Web Development Solutions: Ajax, APIs, Libraries, and Hosted Services Made Easy. Edited by Mark Norman Francis. Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Matei, Oliviu, and Diana Contras. 2016. “Automated Product Design and Development Using Evolutionary Ontology.” In Artificial Intelligence Perspectives in Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of the 5th Computer Science On-Line Conference 2016 (CSOC2016), Vol 1, edited by Radek Silhavy, Roman Senkerik, Zuzana Kominkova Oplatkova, Petr Silhavy, and Zdenka Prokopova, 47–57. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Taub, Ben. 2016. “Scientists May Have Discovered The Neural Source Of Consciousness.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 2014. Public Transit: Federal and Transit Agencies Taking Steps to Build Transit Systems’ Resilience but Face Challenges. GAO-15-159. 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

Hilker, Brent. 2010. “Electric-Field Effects and Interactions of Dye-Polymer Systems.” Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Bosman, Julie. 2014. “Judge Allows Conyers to Be on the Ballot in Michigan.” New York Times, May 24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heremans 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Heremans 2014; Sinervo and Clobert 2003).

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

Two authors: (Sinervo and Clobert 2003)
Three authors: (Ruefli-Brasse, French, and Dixit 2003)
4 or more authors: (Alley et al. 2005)

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