How to format your references using the Asia Europe Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asia Europe Journal. 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

Schiermeier Q (2003) Climate change: the long road from Kyoto. Nature 426:756

A journal article with 2 authors

Karkazis K, Jordan-Young R (2015) Science and society. Debating a testosterone “sex gap.” Science 348:858–860

A journal article with 3 authors

Leizerson I, Lipson SG, Lyushnin AV (2003) Wetting properties: When larger drops evaporate faster. Nature 422:395–396

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dekker J, Rippe K, Dekker M, Kleckner N (2002) Capturing chromosome conformation. Science 295:1306–1311

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cayoun BA (2015) Mindfulness-integrated CBT for Well-being and Personal Growth. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Madani K, Dourado A, Rosa A, Filipe J (eds) (2013) Computational Intelligence: Revised and Selected Papers of the International Joint Conference, IJCCI 2011, Paris, France, October 24-26, 2011. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Gaži P, Tessaro S (2016) Provably Robust Sponge-Based PRNGs and KDFs. In: Fischlin M, Coron J-S (eds) Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2016: 35th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Vienna, Austria, May 8-12, 2016, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 87–116

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 Asia Europe Journal.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) This Is What Happens If You Flush Sodium Down The Toilet. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/this-is-what-happens-if-you-flush-sodium-down-the-toilet/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1972) Cost for Automatic Data Processing Activities in the Federal Government. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Waldron KD (2017) The Influence of Leadership Emotional Intelligence on Employee Engagement. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Kelly RW (1996) Handcuffing the Police. New York Times A21

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier 2003; Karkazis and Jordan-Young 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Karkazis and Jordan-Young 2015)
Three or more authors: (Dekker et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asia Europe Journal
Abbreviation	Asia Eur. J.
ISSN (print)	1610-2932
ISSN (online)	1612-1031
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting General Social Sciences