How to format your references using the ScienceAsia citation style

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

Schölkopf B (2015) Artificial intelligence: Learning to see and act. Nature 518, 486–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dey S, Joshi A (2013) Effects of constant immigration on the dynamics and persistence of stable and unstable Drosophila populations. Sci Rep 3, 1405.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang S, Bai M, Wang L (2013) General and facile surface functionalization of hydrophobic nanocrystals with poly(amino acid) for cell luminescence imaging. Sci Rep 3, 2023.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Jones GH, Roussos E, Krupp N, Paranicas C, Woch J, Lagg A, Mitchell DG, Krimigis SM, Dougherty MK (2006) Enceladus’ varying imprint on the magnetosphere of Saturn. Science 311, 1412–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Das JC (2017) Understanding Symmetrical Components for Power System Modeling, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Filbrun AG (2016) Handbook of Cystic Fibrosis, Lahiri T, Ren CL (eds), Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Quillen E, Glahn D, Almasy L (2016) The Strategy and Utility of the Endophenotype Approach to Neurobehavioral Function. In: Jagaroo V, Santangelo SL (eds) Neurophenotypes: Advancing Psychiatry and Neuropsychology in the ‘OMICS’ Era, Innovations in Cognitive Neuroscience, Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 81–102.

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 ScienceAsia.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) SeaWorld Have Announced That They Are Ending Live Orca Shows. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/seaworld-finally-ending-killer-whale-shows0/ [Accessed October 30, 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 (2004) Rail Security: Some Actions Taken to Enhance Passenger and Freight Rail Security, but Significant Challenges Remain, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Robertson-Tessi M (2010) Mathematical models of tumor growth and therapy. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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 J (2017) Astros Even It Up in Home Run Derby. New York Times, B9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	ScienceAsia
Abbreviation	Sci. Asia.
ISSN (print)	1513-1874
Scope	Multidisciplinary