How to format your references using the The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (author-date) citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (author-date) (JASA). 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

Cornet, F. H. (2015). “SEISMOLOGY. Earthquakes induced by fluid injections,” Science, 348, 1204–1205.

A journal article with 2 authors

Radisky, D. C., and Bissell, M. J. (2004). “Cancer. Respect thy neighbor!,” Science, 303, 775–777.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lu, Y., Wang, W., and Kirschner, M. W. (2015). “Specificity of the anaphase-promoting complex: a single-molecule study,” Science, 348, 1248737.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Latorre, D., Kallweit, U., Armentani, E., Foglierini, M., Mele, F., Cassotta, A., Jovic, S., et al. (2018). “T cells in patients with narcolepsy target self-antigens of hypocretin neurons,” Nature, 562, 63–68.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quinlan, J., and VanderBrug, J. (2016). Gender Lens Investing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Zhao, J. (2015). Graphene Oxide: Physics and Applications, (L. Liu and F. Li, Eds.) SpringerBriefs in Physics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XIII, 154 p. 81 illus., 45 illus. in color pages.

A chapter in an edited book

Rehm, G., and Uszkoreit, H. (2012). “TECHNOLOGIE JĘZYKOWE DLA JĘZYKA POLSKIEGO,” In G. Rehm and H. Uszkoreit (Eds.), The Polish Language in the Digital Age, White Paper Series, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 17–34.

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 The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (author-date).

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015). Cod Collapse Linked To Rapidly Warming Gulf Waters, IFLScience, Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cod-collapse-linked-rapidly-warming-gulf-waters/, (date last viewed: 30-Oct-18). Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cod-collapse-linked-rapidly-warming-gulf-waters/

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). Fiscal Year 2014 Agreed-Upon Procedures: Excise Tax Distributions to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and the Highway Trust Fund ( No. GAO-15-152R), 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

Gu, P. (2017). Advanced Nonlinear Control and Estimation Methods for AC Power Generation Systems (Doctoral dissertation), Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Williams, J. (2017). “A Life in Art,” New York Times,.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cornet, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Cornet, 2015; Radisky and Bissell, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Radisky and Bissell, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Latorre et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (author-date)
Abbreviation	J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
ISSN (print)	0001-4966
ISSN (online)	1520-8524
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Acoustics and Ultrasonics