Author's Guidelines

References

For longer explanations, use footnotes, not endnotes. All references should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper.

The SDPI writing manual suggests the following bibliography style for chapters in books:

For articles

Author’s last name, first and middle name, title in upper case letters and in quotes, title of the book or journal capitalized and italicized, date of publication, page numbers.

Example: KHAN, Shaheen Rafi, “The environment-poverty nexus: Do poor communities really degrade the environment?” SDPI Research & News Bulletin, March-June 2000, pp. 1-4

Report without author

Example: Development and Environment, Report and Working Papers of Experts convened by the Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Founex, Switzerland, Paris: Mouton, 1971

Book chapter

Example: NAJAM, Adil and SAGAR, Ambuj, “Avoiding a COP-out: Moving towards Systematic Decision-Making under the Climate Convention,” Climatic Change, vol. 39, no. 4, 1998, pp. iii-ix; NAJAM and PAGE, Thomas, “The Climate Convention: Deciphering the Kyoto Convention”, Environmental Conservation, vol. 25, no. 3, 1998, pp.187-194

For working papers, research reports, monographs, etc.

Example: HUNTER, David, SALZMAN, James and ZAELKE, Durwood International Environmental Law and Policy, New York: Foundation Press, 1998

M. LÉLÉ, Sharachchndra “Sustainable Development: A critical review,” World Development, vol. 19, no. 6, 1991, pp. 607-21

NAJAM and CLEVELAND, Cutler “Energy and Sustainable Development at Global Environmental Summits: An Evolving Agenda”, Environment, Development and Sustainability, vol. 5, no. 2, 2003

For giving reference within the text

Example: According to media reports, an average of 630 violent deaths (95 per cent male) per year were recorded in the city during the ten-year period starting 1990 (Hisam, 2000, p. 23).

Reference in the bibliography for above

Hisam, Zeenat, “Karachi 2000”, The News on Sunday, 2000, p. 23

Citing from the Web

Internet source should provide a document title or description, a date (either the date of publication or update or the date of retrieval), and an address (in Internet terms, a uniform resource locator, or URL). Whenever possible, identify the authors of a document as well. Reference specific documents rather than home or menu pages and provide addresses that work.