How to format your references using the South Asian History and Culture citation style

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

Ward, Chelsea. “Beauty: 4 Big Questions.” Nature 526, no. 7572 (October 8, 2015): S17.

A journal article with 2 authors

Freeman, M. R., and B. C. Choi. “Advances in Magnetic Microscopy.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 294, no. 5546 (November 16, 2001): 1484–88.

A journal article with 3 authors

Catteruccia, Flaminia, H. Charles J. Godfray, and Andrea Crisanti. “Impact of Genetic Manipulation on the Fitness of Anopheles Stephensi Mosquitoes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299, no. 5610 (February 21, 2003): 1225–27.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Söllner, Christian, Manfred Burghammer, Elisabeth Busch-Nentwich, Jürgen Berger, Heinz Schwarz, Christian Riekel, and Teresa Nicolson. “Control of Crystal Size and Lattice Formation by Starmaker in Otolith Biomineralization.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 302, no. 5643 (October 10, 2003): 282–86.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mittleman, Alan L. A Short History of Jewish Ethics. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

An edited book

Kussul, Ernst. Neural Networks and Micromechanics. Edited by Tatiana Baidyk and Donald C. Wunsch. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Murayama, Akito. “Land Use Planning for Depopulating and Aging Society in Japan.” In Urban Resilience: A Transformative Approach, edited by Yoshiki Yamagata and Hiroshi Maruyama, 79–92. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

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 History and Culture.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. “Scientists Call For A Ban On Microbeads.” IFLScience. IFLScience, September 17, 2015.

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. “Telecommunications: Federal and State Universal Service Programs and Challenges to Funding.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, February 4, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rice, Homer J. “Before the Storm: Evacuation Intention and Audience Segmentation.” Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2010.

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

Sisario, Ben. “Drake and Ed Sheeran Top the Chart, Again.” New York Times, April 10, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	South Asian History and Culture
Abbreviation	South Asian Hist. Cult.
ISSN (print)	1947-2498
ISSN (online)	1947-2501
Scope	General Arts and Humanities Sociology and Political Science Cultural Studies