How to format your references using the The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (author-date) citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (author-date) (JASA). 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

Hoffert, M. I. (2010). “Climate change. Farewell to fossil fuels?,” Science, 329, 1292–1294.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ernest, S. K., and Brown, J. H. (2001). “Delayed compensation for missing keystone species by colonization,” Science, 292, 101–104.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tamisiea, M. E., Mitrovica, J. X., and Davis, J. L. (2007). “GRACE gravity data constrain ancient ice geometries and continental dynamics over Laurentia,” Science, 316, 881–883.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Xia, Z., Zou, M., Zhang, S., Feng, B., and Wang, W. (2014). “AFSM sequencing approach: a simple and rapid method for genome-wide SNP and methylation site discovery and genetic mapping,” Sci. Rep., 4, 7300.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Neave, E. H. (2009). Modern Financial Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hahn, H., Sidorenko, A., and Tiginyanu, I. (Eds.) (2009). Nanoscale Phenomena: Fundamentals and Applications, NanoScience and Technology, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XVIII, 213 p. 139 illus., 33 illus. in color pages.

A chapter in an edited book

Baartse, M., and Meer, K. (2015). “An Algebraic Proof of the Real Number PCP Theorem,” In G. F. Italiano, G. Pighizzini, and D. T. Sannella (Eds.), Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2015: 40th International Symposium, MFCS 2015, Milan, Italy, August 24-28, 2015, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 50–61.

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 The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (author-date).

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016). Terminally Ill Teenage Girl Wins Right To Have Her Body Cryogenically Frozen, IFLScience, Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/terminally-ill-teenage-girl-wins-right-to-have-her-body-cryogenically-frozen/, (date last viewed: 30-Oct-18). Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/terminally-ill-teenage-girl-wins-right-to-have-her-body-cryogenically-frozen/

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 (1989). Implementation of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act ( No. T-HRD-89-8), 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

Vento-Wilson, M. (2012). The role of the speech-language pathologist and augmentative and alternative communication with acute care patients with severe communication impairments (Doctoral dissertation), California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Chapman, M. M. (2015). “Profit Surges for Ford, Propelled by F-150 Sales,” New York Times,.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoffert, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Ernest and Brown, 2001; Hoffert, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Ernest and Brown, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Xia et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (author-date)
Abbreviation	J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
ISSN (print)	0001-4966
ISSN (online)	1520-8524
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Acoustics and Ultrasonics