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

Koen D (2004) Introductory matters. Nature 429:584

A journal article with 2 authors

Weinhold F, Landis CR (2007) Chemistry. High bond orders in metal-metal bonding. Science 316:61–63

A journal article with 3 authors

Scarano F, Guimarães A, da Silva JM (2012) Rio+20: Lead by example. Nature 486:25–26

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kasper LH, Boussouar F, Ney PA, et al (2002) A transcription-factor-binding surface of coactivator p300 is required for haematopoiesis. Nature 419:738–743

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weinberg MA, Segelnick SL, Insler JS, Kramer S (2015) The Dentist’s Quick Guide to Medical Conditions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Rassia ST, Pardalos PM (eds) (2012) Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture: Impacts on Health. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Liu Y, Mitryukovskiy S, Ding P, et al (2015) Backward Lasing of Femtosecond Plasma Filaments. In: Yamanouchi K, Roso L, Li R, et al. (eds) Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XII. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 89–103

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

Fang J (2014) Test Confirms There’s a Huge Hot Bubble Of Gas Caused By A Supernova In Our Galaxy. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/test-confirms-theres-huge-hot-bubble-gas-caused-supernova-our-galaxy/. 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 (1954) Study of United States Government Wind Tunnels. 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

Nye KM (2010) Crème de Pêche. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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 M (1993) White House Memo; President’s Early Troubles Rooted in Party’s Old Strains. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koen 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Koen 2004; Weinhold and Landis 2007).

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

Two authors: (Weinhold and Landis 2007)
Three or more authors: (Kasper 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