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

Diamond J (2010) Social science. The benefits of multilingualism. Science 330:332–333

A journal article with 2 authors

Boles MA, Talapin DV (2014) Chemistry. Connecting the dots. Science 344:1340–1341

A journal article with 3 authors

Gilman RT, Nuismer SL, Jhwueng D-C (2012) Coevolution in multidimensional trait space favours escape from parasites and pathogens. Nature 483:328–330

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Deleris A, Gallego-Bartolome J, Bao J, et al (2006) Hierarchical action and inhibition of plant Dicer-like proteins in antiviral defense. Science 313:68–71

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lafontaine E, Comet M (2016) Nanothermites. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Rossitto C, Ciolfi L, Martin D, Conein B (eds) (2014) COOP 2014 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 27-30 May 2014, Nice (France). Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Lee WB, Shek V, Cheung B (2007) Auditing and Mapping the Knowledge Assets of Business Processes – An Empirical Study. In: Zhang Z, Siekmann J (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management: Second International Conference, KSEM 2007, Melbourne, Australia, November 28-30, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 11–16

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

Luntz S (2016) Vaccines Against HPV Really Do Reduce Cervical Cancer Rates. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/vaccines-against-hpv-really-do-reduce-cervical-cancer-rates/. 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 (2004) Diploma Mills: Diploma Mills Are Easily Created and Some Have Issued Bogus Degrees to Federal Employees at Government Expense. 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

Karmacharya B (2015) Population Dynamics of Northern Cardinal and Carolina Wren in an Urban Forest Fragment: Safe Refuge or Ecological Trap? Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Williams T, Fernandez M (2016) Victim Posed No Threat to Police, Family Says. New York Times A14

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Diamond 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Diamond 2010; Boles and Talapin 2014).

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

Two authors: (Boles and Talapin 2014)
Three or more authors: (Deleris et al. 2006)

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

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