How to format your references using the South Asian Diaspora citation style

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

Rousselle, Tristan. 2004. “Recruiters and Industry. Dual Competencies.” Nature 430 (6998): 488.

A journal article with 2 authors

Feldmann, Marc, and Lawrence Steinman. 2005. “Design of Effective Immunotherapy for Human Autoimmunity.” Nature 435 (7042): 612–619.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kah, Linda C., Timothy W. Lyons, and Tracy D. Frank. 2004. “Low Marine Sulphate and Protracted Oxygenation of the Proterozoic Biosphere.” Nature 431 (7010): 834–838.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Maeda, Shin, Li-Chung Hsu, Hongjun Liu, Laurie A. Bankston, Mitsutoshi Iimura, Martin F. Kagnoff, Lars Eckmann, and Michael Karin. 2005. “Nod2 Mutation in Crohn’s Disease Potentiates NF-kappaB Activity and IL-1beta Processing.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 307 (5710): 734–738.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Massari, Mario, Gianfranco Gianfrate, and Laura Zanetti. 2016. Corporate Valuation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gallego, Maria, and Norman Schofield, eds. 2016. The Political Economy of Social Choices. Studies in Political Economy. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sin, William. 2016. “The Water Margin, Moral Degradation, and the Virtue of Zhixing.” In Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives on Education in the Asia-Pacific Region, edited by Chi-Ming Lam and Jae Park, 51–65. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects. Singapore: 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 South Asian Diaspora.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Genes Play An Important Role In Shaping Chimp Intelligence.” IFLScience, IFLScience, July 10.

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. 1992. Airspace System: Emerging Technologies May Offer Alternatives to the Instrument Landing System. RCED-93-33. 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

Okada, Hirokazu. 2008. “Modulation of BACE1 by a Novel Sorting Nexin in Alzheimer’s Disease.” Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University.

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

Poniewozik, James. 2017. “A Brutal Season of Prison Siege.” New York Times, June 8, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rousselle 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Rousselle 2004; Feldmann and Steinman 2005).

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

Two authors: (Feldmann and Steinman 2005)
Three authors: (Kah, Lyons, and Frank 2004)
4 or more authors: (Maeda et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	South Asian Diaspora
Abbreviation	S. Asian Diaspora
ISSN (print)	1943-8192
ISSN (online)	1943-8184
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Anthropology Cultural Studies