How to format your references using the Bandung: Journal of the Global South citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bandung: Journal of the Global South. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
DeHaan, Robert L. 2011. Science education. Teaching creative science thinking. Science (New York, N.Y.) 334: 1499–1500.
A journal article with 2 authors
Murray, Jessica, and Paul Segall. 2002. Testing time-predictable earthquake recurrence by direct measurement of strain accumulation and release. Nature 419: 287–291.
A journal article with 3 authors
Chen, J., T. Rashid, and G. Feng. 2014. Esterase in imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta and S. richteri (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): activity, kinetics and variation. Scientific reports 4: 7112.
A journal article with 11 or more authors
Pregueiro, António M., Qiuyun Liu, Christopher L. Baker, Jay C. Dunlap, and Jennifer J. Loros. 2006. The Neurospora checkpoint kinase 2: a regulatory link between the circadian and cell cycles. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313: 644–649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. 2014. Energy Materials 2014. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Oka, Yoshiaki, ed. 2014. Nuclear Reactor Design. Vol. 2. An Advanced Course in Nuclear Engineering. Tokyo: Springer Japan.
A chapter in an edited book
Dumova, Tatyana. 2015. Engaging Technology in University-Community Partnerships. In Community Engagement in Higher Education: Policy Reforms and Practice, ed. W. James Jacob, Stewart E. Sutin, John C. Weidman, and John L. Yeager, 51–71. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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 Bandung: Journal of the Global South.

Blog post
Hale, Tom. 2017. Hundreds Of Cats Are Quarantined Following Bird Flu Outbreak In NYC. IFLScience. IFLScience. January 16.

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. 2012. Next Generation Air Transportation System: FAA Faces Implementation Challenges. GAO-12-1011T. 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
Stitt, Carmen R. 2008. Differences in theoretical constructs of processing health information in narrative entertainment television messages. Doctoral dissertation, Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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
Kelly, David A. 2010. Staying in Touch, for Less. New York Times, July 27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (DeHaan 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Murray and Segall 2002; DeHaan 2011).

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

  • Two authors: (Murray and Segall 2002)
  • Three or more authors: (Pregueiro et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal titleBandung: Journal of the Global South
ISSN (online)2198-3534
Scope

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