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To quote a note: (Elias 1975: 56 n.7).
If authors use endnotes, citations here should conform to the guidelines for citation in the text and should not adopt a different style, e.g. (Appadurai 1996: 21). If the author uses phrases in which “see” is needed, do as follow: For a notable exception, see Appadurai (1996: 21). On fun, violence, and nationalism, see Verkaaik (2004), and so on.
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Bibliography
Contributors should ensure that all references cited in the text appear in the list of references.
Authors should list works alphabetically with authors/editors last name first, followed by their first name. If the work has two authors/editors, then the name of the second should also be given. The date of the edition from which the author is working should be given. The title of the work should be written in italics. If the work from which the citation is taken is an edition other than the first or is a reprint, it is preferred that the author state, in square brackets, the date of the first edition of the work. If the work cited is a second or subsequent edition, the author must write out, in words, what edition was used, e.g. 2nd edn. The place of publication and the publisher should be listed, separated by a colon.
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Titles in the references section that are in languages other than English should be italicised in the normal way. If titles are in non-roman script, a transliterated version should follow inside square brackets.
Do not use ‘et al.’.
In the titles, to separate the title and the subtitle, use ‘:’. Ex : Appadurai, Arjun (1996) Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press.
A few examples are given to illustrate the guidelines outlined above:
SINGLE AUTHOR (BOOK OR JOURNAL ARTICLE)
Appadurai, Arjun (1996) Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press.
Skinner, Elliott P. (1993) ‘The Dialectic between Diasporas and Homelands’, in Joseph E. Harris (ed.), Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora, Washington D.C.: Howard University Press, pp. 11-40.
SINGLE EDITOR (BOOK)
Sheffer, Gabriel (ed.) (1986) Modern Diasporas in International Politics, London: Croom Helm.
TWO OR MORE AUTHORS (BOOK OF JOURNAL ARTICLE)
Assayag, Jackie; Bénéï, Véronique (2003) At Home in Diaspora. South Asians Scholars and the West, Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
Mathew, Biju; Prashad, Vijay (2000) ‘The Protean Forms of Yankee Hindutva’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 23, pp. 516-34.
TWO OR MORE EDITORS (BOOK)
Eickelman, Dale; Piscatori, James (eds.) (1990) Muslim Travellers: Pilgrimage, Migration and the Religious Imagination, Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press.
AUTHOR’S WORK CONTAINED IN EDITED BOOK
Hannerz, Ulf (2003) ‘Several Sites in One’, in Thomas Hylland Eriksen (ed.), Globalization: Studies in Anthropology, London: Pluto, pp. 18-38.
Glazer, Nathan; Moynihan, Daniel P. (1975) ‘Introduction’, in Nathan Glazer & Daniel P. Moynihan (eds.), Ethnicity: Theory and Experience, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 1-26.
TWO CITIES OF PUBLICATION
Eickelman, Dale; Piscatori, James (eds.) (1990) Muslim Travellers: Pilgrimage, Migration and the Religious Imagination, Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press.
STATE OF PUBLICATION
Ambrosio, Thomas (2002) ‘Ethnic Identity Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy’, in Thomas Ambrosio (ed.), Ethnic Identity Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy, Westport (Connecticut): Praeger.
PUBLISHER
The name of the publisher should be fully spelt out, e.g. Oxford University Press (and not OUP).
ARTICLE IN A MAGAZINE OR NEWSPAPER (AUTHOR IDENTIFIED)
Malik, Rifat (1997) ‘West Side Story Asian Style’, The Evening Standard, 22 May.
In text: (Malik 1997).
ARTICLE IN A MAGAZINE OR NEWSPAPER (AUTHOR NOT IDENTIFIED)
The New York Times. 2007. ‘A Much Needed Second Chance’, 2 July.
In text: (The New York Times 2007)
INTERVIEWS
Martinez, Pablo (2000). Interview by author, 9 September, Madrid.
In text: (Martinez 2000)
Menon, Lara (1997). Interview by Florence Albrecht, 23 May, New Delhi.
In text: (Menon 1997)
NEW PUBLICATION OF OLDER EDITION
Baumann, Gerd (1998) Contesting Culture: Discourses of Identity in Multi-Ethnic London, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1996].
In text: (Baumann 1998).
ONLINE JOURNAL
Karpat, Kemal H. (2004) ‘The Genesis of the Gecekondu: Rural Migration and Urbanization (1976)’, European Journal of Turkish Studies, Thematic Issue 1 - Gecekondu, URL: http://www.ejts.org/document54.html
The same rules should be applied for book reviews.