How to format your references using the APCBEE Procedia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for APCBEE Procedia. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

M. Sincell, INSTITUTIONAL PROFILE: Scientific Ballooning’s Buoyant Mood, Science 289 (2000) 534–536.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.M. Johnson, B.L. Beard, Geochemistry. Biogeochemical cycling of iron isotopes, Science 309 (2005) 1025–1027.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.W. Lowe, E. Cepero, G. Evan, Intrinsic tumour suppression, Nature 432 (2004) 307–315.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Hanfland, K. Syassen, N.E. Christensen, D.L. Novikov, New high-pressure phases of lithium, Nature 408 (2000) 174–178.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

H. Razik, Handbook of Asynchronous Machine with Variable Speed, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

A. Bacchieri, Fundamentals of Clinical Research: Bridging Medicine, Statistics and Operations, Springer, Milano, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Zhang, M.R. Neuhäußer, Model Checking Interactive Markov Chains, in: J. Esparza, R. Majumdar (Eds.), Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 16th International Conference, TACAS 2010, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2010, Paphos, Cyprus, March 20-28, 2010. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 53–68.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for APCBEE Procedia.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, Beijing Is Sinking As Its Groundwater Dries Up, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/beijing-sinking-groundwater-dries-up/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Public Transportation: Use of Contractors is Generally Enhancing Transit Project Oversight, and FTA is Taking Actions to Address Some Stakeholder Concerns, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.S. Taylor, Too Close to the Knives: Children’s Rights, Parental Authority, and Best Interests in the Context of Elective Pediatric Surgeries, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2015.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

M.R. Gordon, Inside the American Air War Over Syria: A High Altitude ‘Poker Game,’ New York Times (2017) A7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	APCBEE Procedia
Abbreviation	APCBEE Procedia
ISSN (print)	2212-6708
Scope