How to format your references using the Asian Philosophy citation style

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

Simonton, D. K. (2013). After Einstein: Scientific genius is extinct. Nature, 493(7434), 602.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bradford, L., & O’Tierney, P. (2001). Three-person rule was not set by Nobel himself. Nature, 411(6836), 413.

A journal article with 3 authors

Werner, S. C., Ody, A., & Poulet, F. (2014). The source crater of martian shergottite meteorites. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6177), 1343–1346.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Jékely, G., Colombelli, J., Hausen, H., Guy, K., Stelzer, E., Nédélec, F., & Arendt, D. (2008). Mechanism of phototaxis in marine zooplankton. Nature, 456(7220), 395–399.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weber, P., & Simon, C. (2016). Benefits of Bayesian Network Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rojo, J. (Ed.). (2012). Selected Works of E. L. Lehmann. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Halfond, W. G. J., & Orso, A. (2007). Detection and Prevention of SQL Injection Attacks. In M. Christodorescu, S. Jha, D. Maughan, D. Song, & C. Wang (Eds.), Malware Detection (pp. 85–109). Springer US.

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 Philosophy.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, April 14). Cone Snail Pain Killers Could be 100 Times As Effective As Morphine. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cone-snail-pain-killers-could-be-100-times-effective-morphine/

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. (2008). Highway Bridge Program: Clearer Goals and Performance Measures Needed for a More Focused and Sustainable Program (GAO-08-1127T). 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

Burugupalli, R. T. (2017). 2x1 Space-Time MIMO-OFDM Parallel Cancellation Scheme with Viterbi Decoding [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Pilon, M. (2013, February 16). A Scandal Leaves Its Mark. New York Times, D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Simonton, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Bradford & O’Tierney, 2001; Simonton, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Bradford & O’Tierney, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Jékely et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asian Philosophy
ISSN (print)	0955-2367
ISSN (online)	1469-2961
Scope	Philosophy Religious studies