How to format your references using the Asian Geographer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Geographer. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Patterson, Paul H. 2007. “Neuroscience. Maternal Effects on Schizophrenia Risk.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 318 (5850): 576–577.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stott, Peter A., and J. A. Kettleborough. 2002. “Origins and Estimates of Uncertainty in Predictions of Twenty-First Century Temperature Rise.” Nature 416 (6882): 723–726.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palop, Jorge J., Jeannie Chin, and Lennart Mucke. 2006. “A Network Dysfunction Perspective on Neurodegenerative Diseases.” Nature 443 (7113): 768–773.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yamashita, Susumu, Chiemi Miyagi, Toshiyuki Fukada, Naofumi Kagara, Yong-Suk Che, and Toshio Hirano. 2004. “Zinc Transporter LIVI Controls Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Zebrafish Gastrula Organizer.” Nature 429 (6989): 298–302.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perrin, Vincent. 2013. MRI Techniques. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Moraglio, Alberto, Sara Silva, Krzysztof Krawiec, Penousal Machado, and Carlos Cotta, eds. 2012. Genetic Programming: 15th European Conference, EuroGP 2012, Málaga, Spain, April 11-13, 2012. Proceedings. Vol. 7244. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hishida, Nozomi, and Rajib Shaw. 2014. “Social Capital in Disaster Recovery in Japan: An Overview.” In Community Practices for Disaster Risk Reduction in Japan, edited by Rajib Shaw, 51–62. Disaster Risk Reduction. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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 Asian Geographer.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. “NASA Just Released A GIPHY Page Full Of The Universe’s Best Moving Images.” IFLScience, IFLScience, December 13. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-just-released-a-giphy-page-full-of-the-universes-best-moving-images/.

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. 2005. Commercial Aviation: Preliminary Observations on Legacy Airlines’ Financial Condition, Bankruptcy, and Pension Issues. GAO-05-835T. 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

Himschoot, Agnes Rose. 2012. “Student Perception of Relevance of Biology Content to Everyday Life: A Study in Higher Education Biology Courses.” Doctoral dissertation, 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

Barry, Ellen, and Sophia Kishkovsky. 2012. “Russian Turnout Includes Thousands of Eager Election Observers.” New York Times, March 5, 2012.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Patterson 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Patterson 2007; Stott and Kettleborough 2002).

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

Two authors: (Stott and Kettleborough 2002)
Three authors: (Palop, Chin, and Mucke 2006)
4 or more authors: (Yamashita et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asian Geographer
Abbreviation	Asian Geogr.
ISSN (print)	1022-5706
ISSN (online)	2158-1762
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