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How to Cite the Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies
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.
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):
- Footnote/Endnote citation of the article as a whole:
Geoff Childs, “Methods, Meanings, and Representations in the Study of Past Tibetan Societies,” Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, no. 1 (October 2005): 1-11, http://www.thlib.org?tid=T1217 (accessed August 4, 2008). - Footnote/Endnote citation of a specific page of the article (in this case, page 2):
Geoff Childs, “Methods, Meanings, and Representations in the Study of Past Tibetan Societies,” Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, no. 1 (October 2005): 2, http://www.thlib.org?tid=T1217 (accessed August 4, 2008). - Bibliography citation:
Childs, Geoff. “Methods, Meanings, and Representations in the Study of Past Tibetan Societies.” Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, no. 1 (October 2005): 1-11. http://www.thlib.org?tid=T1217 (accessed August 4, 2008).
For book reviews, the citation format is slightly different:
- Footnote/Endnote citation of the review as a whole:
Stacey Van Vleet, review of Echoes from Dharamsala: Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community, by Kiela Diehl, Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, no. 2 (August 2006): 1-4, http://www.thlib.org?tid=T2725 (accessed August 4, 2008). - Footnote/Endnote citation of a specific page of the review (in this case, page 3):
Stacey Van Vleet, review of Echoes from Dharamsala: Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community, by Kiela Diehl, Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, no. 2 (August 2006): 3, http://www.thlib.org?tid=T2725 (accessed August 4, 2008). - Bibliography citation:
Van Vleet, Stacey. Review of Echoes from Dharamsala: Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community, by Kiela Diehl. Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, no. 2 (August 2006): 1-4. http://www.thlib.org?tid=T2725 (accessed August 4, 2008).
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 not be used for reference purposes.
The ISSN of JIATS is 1550-6363.
