Referencing

The journal uses an author–date system, with one requirement of its own: primary texts are listed separately from secondary literature.

In the text

  • Secondary literature: (Pollock 2006, 142); two authors (Sharma and Rao 2019, 55–58); three or more (Kane et al. 1968, 3:212).
  • Primary texts by chapter and verse, not by page: (NS 1.1.4), (Mahābhāṣya on Aṣṭādhyāyī 1.1.1), (Bhagavadgītā 2.47).
  • Where the edition matters to the argument, name it: (NS 1.1.4, ed. Thakur 1967).
  • Footnotes carry substantive comment only, not bare citations. Number them continuously.

Primary sources

List by text title, then editor or translator, edition and place of publication. Give the manuscript's repository and accession number where a manuscript is used.

Nyāyasūtra. With the Bhāṣya of Vātsyāyana. Edited by Anantalal Thakur.
    New Delhi: Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 1967.

Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini. Edited and translated by Sumitra M. Katre.
    Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987.

Śāradātilaka. MS 4412, Oriental Research Institute, Mysore. Palm leaf, 18th c.

Secondary literature

Pollock, Sheldon. 2006. The Language of the Gods in the World of Men.
    Berkeley: University of California Press.

Ganeri, Jonardon. 2011. "Emergentisms, Ancient and Modern."
    Mind 120 (479): 671-703. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzr038

Sharma, R. K. 2019. "Teaching Nyāya in the Undergraduate Classroom."
    In Pedagogies of the Śāstra, edited by A. Rao, 88-104. Delhi: Motilal.

Rules that are enforced

  • Every in-text citation appears in the reference list, and every entry in the list is cited in the text.
  • DOIs are given for every source that has one.
  • Web sources carry an access date and a stable URL. An archived link is preferred to a live one.
  • Sanskrit titles and author names in IAST, in Unicode, in the reference list as in the text.
  • Do not cite a source you have not read. If you take a citation from another work, mark it “cited in”.

Reference managers

Chicago author–date is the closest standard style; a Chicago author–date export is accepted, provided primary texts are moved into their own section and diacritics survive the export. Check the diacritics — reference managers lose them routinely.