How to format your references using the Central Asian Survey citation style

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

Gaffan, David. 2005. “Neuroscience. Widespread Cortical Networks Underlie Memory and Attention.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 309 (5744): 2172–2173.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davis, Charles C., and Kenneth J. Wurdack. 2004. “Host-to-Parasite Gene Transfer in Flowering Plants: Phylogenetic Evidence from Malpighiales.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 305 (5684): 676–678.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brandes, Marlène, Katharina Willimann, and Bernhard Moser. 2005. “Professional Antigen-Presentation Function by Human Gammadelta T Cells.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 309 (5732): 264–268.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Huang, Angela L., Xiaoke Chen, Mark A. Hoon, Jayaram Chandrashekar, Wei Guo, Dimitri Tränkner, Nicholas J. P. Ryba, and Charles S. Zuker. 2006. “The Cells and Logic for Mammalian Sour Taste Detection.” Nature 442 (7105): 934–938.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coulson, Jim. 2014. Sustainable Use of Wood in Construction. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Boehncke, Wolf-Henning, and Heinfried H. Radeke, eds. 2007. Biologics in General Medicine. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yorke, Mantz. 2009. “Faulty Signals? Inadequacies of Grading Systems and a Possible Response.” In Assessment, Learning and Judgement in Higher Education, edited by Gordon Joughin, 1–20. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Central Asian Survey.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Messenger Spacecraft Detects Ancient Magnetic Field On Mercury.” IFLScience, IFLScience, May 8.

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. 1999. Customs Service Modernization: Ineffective Software Development Processes Increase Customs System Development Risks. AIMD-99-35. 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

Platt, Jonathan Brooks. 2008. “Feast in the Time of Terror: Stalinist Temporal Paradox and the 1937 Pushkin Jubilee.” Doctoral dissertation, Columbia 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

Billard, Mary. 2013. “Keeping Up With His Followers.” New York Times, October 24, 2013.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gaffan 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Gaffan 2005; Davis and Wurdack 2004).

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

Two authors: (Davis and Wurdack 2004)
Three authors: (Brandes, Willimann, and Moser 2005)
4 or more authors: (Huang et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Central Asian Survey
Abbreviation	Centr. Asian Surv.
ISSN (print)	0263-4937
ISSN (online)	1465-3354
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Development Geography, Planning and Development