Researchers or requested to follow the following reference style while developing their papers for ZEST. This style is originated from Chicago Manual of Style. 

References for the first time in the paper

Book:

Muhammad Asad, Islam at the crossroads (Lahore: Sheikh Muhammad Ashraf,1955),12.

(In case of more than one volume please write volume and page as: 1:12)

Journal:

Muhammad Samiei, “Neo-Orientaliosm? The relationship between the West and Islam in our globalized world.” Third World Quarterly 31, no. 7 (2010): 1145.

Website:

McDonald's Corporation. "McDonald's Happy Meal Toy Safety Facts." Accessed July 19, 2008. http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html.

Editor, translator, or compiler in addition to author:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, trans. Edith Grossman (London: Cape, 1988), 242-55.

Editor, translator, or compiler instead of author:

Richmond Lattimore, trans., The Iliad of Homer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), 91-92.

Thesis or dissertation:

Richard E. Remedios, "Defining my Process: My Journey Through the MFA Acting Program at the University of South Carolina." (Masters thesis, University of South Carolina, 2007), 35.

Indirect Source:

Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What? (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), 103, quoted in Manuel DeLanda, A New Philosophy of Society (New York: Continuum, 2006), 2.

Paper presented at a meeting or conference:

Rachel Adelman, " 'Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On': God's Footstool in the Aramaic Targumim and Midrashic Tradition" (paper presented at the annual meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 21-24, 2009).

Book review:
David Kamp, "Deconstructing Dinner," review of The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan, New York Times, April 23, 2006, Sunday Book Review, 30.

Organization, association, or corporation as author:
University of Chicago Press, The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), 100-101.

Two or more authors:
Geoffrey C. Ward, John H and Ken Burns, The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945 (New York: Knopf, 2007), 12.

Short References (i.e. after first reference  in the paper)

Book:

Asad, Islam at the crossroads,13.

(In case of more than one volume please write volume and page as: 1:12)

Journal:

Samiei, “Neo-Orientaliosm? The relationship between the West and Islam in our globalized world.” Third World Quarterly, 1146.

Editor, translator, or compiler in addition to author:

Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, 56.

Editor, translator, or compiler instead of author:

Lattimore, The Iliad of Homer, 93.

Website:

Corporation. "McDonald's Happy Meal Toy Safety Facts." Accessed July 19, 2008. http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/factsheets.html.

Thesis or dissertation:

Remedios, "Defining my Process: My Journey Through the MFA Acting Program at the University of South Carolina." , 36.

Indirect Source:

Hacking, The Social Construction of What?, 104, quoted in Manuel DeLanda, A New Philosophy of Society , 3.

Paper presented at a meeting or conference:

Adelman, " 'Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On': God's Footstool in the Aramaic Targumim and Midrashic Tradition"

Book review:
Kamp, "Deconstructing Dinner,", 31.

Organization, association, or corporation as author:
Chicago Press, The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed , 102.

Two or more authors:
Ward, H and Burns, The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945, 13.

Verse from the Quran:

Al-Baqarah 2:15.