How to format your references using the Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Körding, K. 2007. “Decision theory: what ‘should’ the nervous system do?,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 318/5850 (2007), 606–610.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kimble, J. and D. C. Page 2007. “The mysteries of sexual identity. The germ cell’s perspective,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 316/5823 (2007), 400–401.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sobolev, A. V., A. W. Hofmann, and I. K. Nikogosian 2000. “Recycled oceanic crust observed in ‘ghost plagioclase’ within the source of Mauna Loa lavas,” Nature, 404/6781 (2000), 986–990.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mayfield, J. A., A. Fiebig, S. E. Johnstone, and D. Preuss 2001. “Gene families from the Arabidopsis thaliana pollen coat proteome,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 292/5526 (2001), 2482–2485.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnett, A. H. and J. Grice 2011. New Mechanisms in Glucose Control (Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011).

An edited book

Chang, A., ed., 2009. Class 3 Hydrolases: EC 3.4.22—3.13, S6, Springer Handbook of Enzymes, Second Edition (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009).

A chapter in an edited book

Płaza, G. A., K. Ulfig, and A. J. Tien 2005. “Immunotechniques as a Tool for Detection of Hydrocarbons,” in F. Schinner, ed., Monitoring and Assessing Soil Bioremediation, Soil Biology (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005), 121–130.

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 Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin.

Blog post

Davis, J. Acceptance Of Same-Sex Relationships In America Almost Quadruples In Under 25 Years IFLScience (IFLScience, 2016) <https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/acceptance-of-same-sex-relationships-in-america-almost-quadruples-in-under-twenty-five-years/>, accessed 30 October 2018.

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 1997. Federal Communications Commission: Provision for the Use of the 220-222 MHz Band by Private Land Mobile Radio Service and Final Rule ( No. OGC-97-35) (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

McCorkle, W. B. 2005. Tongue, Nib, Block, Bit: Rhetorical Delivery and Technologies of Writing, Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University (2005).

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

Chira, S. 2017. “For Mothers Seeking Office, a Familiar Double Standard,” New York Times (March 14, 2017), A11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin
ISSN (print)	2410-0951
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