How to format your references using the Asia Pacific Business Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asia Pacific Business Review. 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	Download the output style file
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

Kitano, Hiroaki. 2002. “Systems Biology: A Brief Overview.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 295 (5560): 1662–1664.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu, Min, and Per E. Ahlberg. 2004. “The Origin of the Internal Nostril of Tetrapods.” Nature 432 (7013): 94–97.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cohen, Aron J., Paula Mori-Sánchez, and Weitao Yang. 2008. “Insights into Current Limitations of Density Functional Theory.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 321 (5890): 792–794.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hong, Wooyoung, Feng Liang, Diane Schaak, Marko Loncar, and Qimin Quan. 2014. “Nanoscale Label-Free Bioprobes to Detect Intracellular Proteins in Single Living Cells.” Scientific Reports 4 (August): 6179.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Plantin, Jean-Christophe. 2014. Participatory Mapping. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hellborg, Ragnar, Harry J. Whitlow, and Yanwen Zhang, eds. 2010. Ion Beams in Nanoscience and Technology. Particle Acceleration and Detection. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Job, Georg, and Regina Rüffler. 2016. “Chemical Potential.” In Physical Chemistry from a Different Angle: Introducing Chemical Equilibrium, Kinetics and Electrochemistry by Numerous Experiments, edited by Regina Rüffler, 93–128. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Pacific Business Review.

Blog post

Andrew, Danielle. 2017. “IVF Has Little Effect On Health Of The Child.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ivf-has-little-effect-on-health-of-the-child/.

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. 1979. Inadequate Monitoring of U.S. Merchant Tanker Fleet Hampers Mobilization Planning. LCD-79-215. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Taaz, Zoya. 2017. “Boiler Automation and Monitoring of Temperature and Steam Flow Using Simulink.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Billard, Mary. 2010. “The Air Down There Soothes Feet.” New York Times, September 23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kitano 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Kitano 2002; Zhu and Ahlberg 2004).

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

Two authors: (Zhu and Ahlberg 2004)
Three authors: (Cohen, Mori-Sánchez, and Yang 2008)
4 or more authors: (Hong et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asia Pacific Business Review
Abbreviation	Asia Pac. Bus. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1360-2381
ISSN (online)	1743-792X
Scope	Business and International Management