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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Gewin, Virginia. 2005. “High-Energy Career Lines.” Nature 434 (7035): 936–937.
A journal article with 2 authors
Riser, Stephen C., and Kenneth S. Johnson. 2008. “Net Production of Oxygen in the Subtropical Ocean.” Nature 451 (7176): 323–325.
A journal article with 3 authors
Kim, Jong-Hyun, Makoto Yoneya, and Hiroshi Yokoyama. 2002. “Tristable Nematic Liquid-Crystal Device Using Micropatterned Surface Alignment.” Nature 420 (6912): 159–162.
A journal article with 11 or more authors
Chen, Xi, Bairen Zhu, Anmin Zhang, Hualing Zeng, Qingming Zhang, and Xiaodong Cui. 2014. “Electronic Raman Scattering on Individual Semiconducting Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes.” Scientific Reports 4 (August): 5969.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Kang, Shinill. 2012. Micro/Nano Replication. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Leicht, Kevin T., and J. Craig Jenkins, eds. 2010. Handbook of Politics: State and Society in Global Perspective. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. New York, NY: Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Das, Sanjukta, D. N. Pandey, and N. Sukavanam. 2015. “Approximation of Solutions of a Stochastic Differential Equation.” In Mathematical Analysis and Its Applications: Roorkee, India, December 2014, edited by P. N. Agrawal, R. N. Mohapatra, Uaday Singh, and H. M. Srivastava, 51–62. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. New Delhi: Springer India.

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, Elise. 2015. “Hubble Snaps Stunning Image Of An Exploded Star.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1988. Space Operations: Testing of NASA’s Technical and Management Information System. IMTEC-88-28. 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
Capobianco, Vincent J. 2017. “Effect of Slot Height Variation on the Aerodynamic Performance of a Circulation Control Airfoil: A CFD Analysis.” 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
Milhollin, Gary, and Kelly Motz. 2002. “Why Iraq Will Defeat Arms Inspectors.” New York Times, September 16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin 2005; Riser and Johnson 2008).

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

  • Two authors: (Riser and Johnson 2008)
  • Three authors: (Kim, Yoneya, and Yokoyama 2002)
  • 4 or more authors: (Chen et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal titleAsia Pacific Business Review
AbbreviationAsia Pac. Bus. Rev.
ISSN (print)1360-2381
ISSN (online)1743-792X
ScopeBusiness and International Management

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