How to format your references using the Journal of Contemporary Asia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Contemporary Asia. 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

Kniffen, D. A. 2000. “Instrument’s Ability to Do the Job Is NASA’s Priority.” Nature 405 (6782): 14.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lin, C. D., and Wei-Chun Chu. 2013. “Physics. Controlling Atomic Line Shapes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 340 (6133): 694–695.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Yi Ge, Mark Pagani, and Zhonghui Liu. 2014. “Response to Comment on ‘A 12-Million-Year Temperature History of the Tropical Pacific Ocean.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 346 (6216): 1467.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Oberdoerffer, Shalini, Luis Ferreira Moita, Daniel Neems, Rui P. Freitas, Nir Hacohen, and Anjana Rao. 2008. “Regulation of CD45 Alternative Splicing by Heterogeneous Ribonucleoprotein, hnRNPLL.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 321 (5889): 686–691.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Uriev, Naum B. 2016. Technology of Dispersed Systems and Materials. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Hevia, Alejandro, and Gregory Neven, eds. 2012. Progress in Cryptology – LATINCRYPT 2012: 2nd International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America, Santiago, Chile, October 7-10, 2012. Proceedings. Vol. 7533. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hairer, E., and G. Wanner. 2008. “Calculus in Several Variables.” In Analysis by Its History, edited by E. Hairer and G. Wanner, 271–350. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. New York, NY: 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 Journal of Contemporary Asia.

Blog post

Taub, Ben. 2017. “Can You Solve This First Grade Math Problem?” IFLScience, IFLScience, January 12. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/can-you-solve-first-grade-math-problem/.

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. 1981. Head Start: An Effective Program but the Fund Distribution Formula Needs Revision and Management Controls Need Improvement. HRD-81-83. 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

Ramos, Christina M. 2017. “Is This Working? A Study on Measuring the Effectiveness of Efforts to Diversify the Theatre Management Field.” 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

Wagner, James. 2016. “Dodgers’ Rookie Manager Learns, and Acts, Quickly.” New York Times, October 15, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kniffen 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kniffen 2000; Lin and Chu 2013).

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

Two authors: (Lin and Chu 2013)
Three authors: (Zhang, Pagani, and Liu 2014)
4 or more authors: (Oberdoerffer et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Contemporary Asia
Abbreviation	J. Contemp. Asia
ISSN (print)	0047-2336
ISSN (online)	1752-7554
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Cultural Studies