Jiats How To Cite
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</p><h3 class="heading-h1"><a name="HowtoCitetheJournaloftheInternationalAssociationofTibetanStudies" class="anchorpoint"></a>How to Cite the <em class="italic">Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies</em></h3><p class="paragraph">Citation is an essential aspect of all publications that allows users to easily note down the location of a specific segment or component for their own future reference, or to easily direct other users to it. As born-digital publications such as JIATS have come on the scene only recently, the standard citation practices have not fully been established. Given the ever-evolving nature of the digital medium, the use of URLs can be problematic, since sites move and URLs change.</p><p class="paragraph">Each JIATS article has page numbers found within its web version that mirror the pagination of its PDF version. The online page numbers, which take the format of, for example “[page 1],” are linked to pop-up windows that provide both the footnote citation for that page and the bibliographic citation for the article as a whole. These citations take the following format, using as an example Geoff Childs’ article in issue 1, page 2 (the THL ID for this article is T1217, and the date you accessed the article online in this example is August 4, 2008):</p><ol><li>Footnote/Endnote citation of the article as a whole:<br/>Geoff Childs, “Methods, Meanings, and Representations in the Study of Past Tibetan Societies,” <em class="italic">Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies</em>, no. 1 (October 2005): 1-11, http://www.thlib.org?tid=T1217 (accessed August 4, 2008).</li>
<li>Footnote/Endnote citation of a specific page of the article (in this case, page 2):<br/>Geoff Childs, “Methods, Meanings, and Representations in the Study of Past Tibetan Societies,” <em class="italic">Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies</em>, no. 1 (October 2005): 2, http://www.thlib.org?tid=T1217 (accessed August 4, 2008).</li>
<li>Bibliography citation:<br/>Childs, Geoff. “Methods, Meanings, and Representations in the Study of Past Tibetan Societies.” <em class="italic">Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies</em>, no. 1 (October 2005): 1-11. http://www.thlib.org?tid=T1217 (accessed August 4, 2008).</li></ol><p class="paragraph">For book reviews, the citation format is slightly different:</p><ol><li>Footnote/Endnote citation of the review as a whole:<br/>Stacey Van Vleet, review of <em class="italic">Echoes from Dharamsala: Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community</em>, by Kiela Diehl, <em class="italic">Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies</em>, no. 2 (August 2006): 1-4, http://www.thlib.org?tid=T2725 (accessed August 4, 2008).</li>
<li>Footnote/Endnote citation of a specific page of the review (in this case, page 3):<br/>Stacey Van Vleet, review of <em class="italic">Echoes from Dharamsala: Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community</em>, by Kiela Diehl, <em class="italic">Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies</em>, no. 2 (August 2006): 3, http://www.thlib.org?tid=T2725 (accessed August 4, 2008).</li>
<li>Bibliography citation:<br/>Van Vleet, Stacey. Review of <em class="italic">Echoes from Dharamsala: Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community</em>, by Kiela Diehl. <em class="italic">Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies</em>, no. 2 (August 2006): 1-4. http://www.thlib.org?tid=T2725 (accessed August 4, 2008).</li></ol><p class="paragraph">The proper bibliographical reference for these articles’ titles is the “scholarly view” of the title with Tibetan in transliteration. We provide a “popular view” of the titles with phonetic Tibetan for reader convenience, but it should <strong class="bold">not</strong> be used for reference purposes.</p><p class="paragraph">The ISSN of JIATS is 1550-6363.
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