How to format your references using the International Journal of Dharma Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Dharma Studies. 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

Parham, Peter. 2003. Innate immunity: The unsung heroes. Nature 423: 20.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mullins, C. Buddie, and Greg O. Sitz. 2008. Chemistry. Taking a selective bite out of methane. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319: 736–737.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tria, F., S. Pompei, and V. Loreto. 2013. Dynamically correlated mutations drive human Influenza A evolution. Scientific reports 3: 2705.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Nalbant, Suleyman S., Sandy Steacy, Kerry Sieh, Danny Natawidjaja, and John McCloskey. 2005. Seismology: earthquake risk on the Sunda trench. Nature 435: 756–757.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moeller, Robert R. 2013. Executive’s Guide to IT Governance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hankin, Chris, and Igor Siveroni, ed. 2005. Static Analysis: 12th International Symposium, SAS 2005, London, UK, September 7-9, 2005. Proceedings. Vol. 3672. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, Cheng, Chunhe Xia, Haiquan Wang, and Xiaojian Li. 2013. On the Spatial-temporal Reachability of DTNs. In Frontiers in Internet Technologies: Second CCF Internet Conference of China, ICoC 2013, Zhangjiajie, China, July 10, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, ed. Jinshu Su, Baokang Zhao, Zhigang Sun, Xiaofeng Wang, Fei Wang, and Ke Xu, 40–49. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 International Journal of Dharma Studies.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2016. Dinosaurs May Have Been Cooing To Each Other. IFLScience. IFLScience. July 12.

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. General Government Information Systems Issue Area--Active Assignments. AA-97-28(1). 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

Winkelhake, Brett. 2015. Verbal argumentativeness: A study of retail store managers. Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF. 2010. Batman Beats Superman In the Marketplace. New York Times, February 27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Parham 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Parham 2003; Mullins and Sitz 2008).

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

Two authors: (Mullins and Sitz 2008)
Three or more authors: (Nalbant et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Dharma Studies
Abbreviation	Int. J. Dharma Stud.
ISSN (online)	2196-8802
Scope