How to format your references using the Language Testing in Asia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Language Testing in 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	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

Savage, N. (2012). Technology: the taste of things to come. Nature, 486(7403), S18-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fischer, M. G., & Suttle, C. A. (2011). A virophage at the origin of large DNA transposons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6026), 231–234.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mungall, J. E., Ames, D. E., & Hanley, J. J. (2004). Geochemical evidence from the Sudbury structure for crustal redistribution by large bolide impacts. Nature, 429(6991), 546–548.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yuan, H., Besselink, R., Liao, Z., & Ten Elshof, J. E. (2014). The swelling transition of lepidocrocite-type protonated layered titanates into anatase under hydrothermal treatment. Scientific reports, 4, 4584.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ippolito, L. J., Jr. (2017). Satellite Communications Systems Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gelenbe, E., Lent, R., Sakellari, G., Sacan, A., Toroslu, H., & Yazici, A. (Eds.). (2010). Computer and Information Sciences: Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (Vol. 62). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Díaz, I., Touriño, J., & Doallo, R. (2007). Towards Low-Latency Model-Oriented Distributed Systems Management. In S. Ata & C. S. Hong (Eds.), Managing Next Generation Networks and Services: 10th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium, APNOMS 2007, Sapporo, Japan, October 10-12, 2007. Proceedings (pp. 41–50). 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 Language Testing in Asia.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, May 29). Mixing Marijuana With Alcohol Increases THC Concentrations in Your Blood. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mixing-marijuana-alcohol-increases-thc-concentrations-your-blood/. 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. (1981). President’s Third Special Message for FY 1981 (No. OGC-81-3). 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

Tanner-Anderson, S. L. (2014). “The Road Less Traveled”: The Female’s Journey to the State Superintendency (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Pilon, M. (2012, June 18). I.O.C. Opens Inquiry Into Resale Of Tickets. New York Times, p. D7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Savage 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Fischer and Suttle 2011; Savage 2012).

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

Two authors: (Fischer and Suttle 2011)
Three or more authors: (Yuan et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Language Testing in Asia
Abbreviation	Lang. Test. Asia
ISSN (online)	2229-0443
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