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

Zerhouni, Elias. 2003. “Embryonic Stem Cells. Stem Cell Programs.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300 (5621): 911–912.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim-Muller, Ja Young, and Domenico Accili. 2011. “Cell Biology. Selective Insulin Sensitizers.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 331 (6024): 1529–1531.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grandison, Richard C., Matthew D. W. Piper, and Linda Partridge. 2009. “Amino-Acid Imbalance Explains Extension of Lifespan by Dietary Restriction in Drosophila.” Nature 462 (7276): 1061–1064.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Isbell, Forest, Vincent Calcagno, Andy Hector, John Connolly, W. Stanley Harpole, Peter B. Reich, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, et al. 2011. “High Plant Diversity Is Needed to Maintain Ecosystem Services.” Nature 477 (7363): 199–202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ben-Daya, Mohammed, Uday Kumar, and D. N. Prabhakar Murthy. 2016. Introduction to Maintenance Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Cai, Zhihua, Chengyu Hu, Zhuo Kang, and Yong Liu, eds. 2010. Advances in Computation and Intelligence: 5th International Symposium, ISICA 2010, Wuhan, China, October 22-24, 2010. Proceedings. Vol. 6382. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Erradi, Abdelkarim, Piyush Maheshwari, and Vladimir Tosic. 2006. “Policy-Driven Middleware for Self-Adaptation of Web Services Compositions.” In Middleware 2006: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 7th International Middleware Conference, Melbourne, Australia, November 27-December 1, 2006. Proceedings, edited by Maarten van Steen and Michi Henning, 62–80. 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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Are Space And Time An Illusion?” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/your-future-set-stone-spacetime/.

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. 1994. Women’s Educational Equity Act: A Review of Program Goals and Strategies Needed. PEMD-95-6. 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

Wilensky, Sara Elizabeth. 2010. “340B Prime Vendor Program: Health Center Decision Making and Barriers to Participation.” Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Wagner, James. 2017. “Back of Rotation Helps Mets Get First Exhibition Win.” New York Times, February 25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zerhouni 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Zerhouni 2003; Kim-Muller and Accili 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kim-Muller and Accili 2011)
Three authors: (Grandison, Piper, and Partridge 2009)
4 or more authors: (Isbell et al. 2011)

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