How to format your references using the Asia Pacific Family Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asia Pacific Family Medicine. 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

1. Clutton-Brock T. Cooperation between non-kin in animal societies. Nature. 2009;462:51–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Allesina S, Tang S. Stability criteria for complex ecosystems. Nature. 2012;483:205–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Thisse B, Wright CV, Thisse C. Activin- and Nodal-related factors control antero-posterior patterning of the zebrafish embryo. Nature. 2000;403:425–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zhao Q, Zhou H, Chi S, Wang Y, Wang J, Geng J, et al. Author Correction: Structure and mechanogating mechanism of the Piezo1 channel. Nature. 2018;563:E19.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kondoz AM. Digital Speech. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Hakeem FB. Policing Muslim Communities: Comparative International Context. Haberfeld MR, Verma A, editors. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Connor R, Vadicamo L, Cardillo FA, Rabitti F. Supermetric Search with the Four-Point Property. In: Amsaleg L, Houle ME, Schubert E, editors. Similarity Search and Applications: 9th International Conference, SISAP 2016, Tokyo, Japan, October 24-26, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 51–64.

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 Family Medicine.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Fish Oil Supplements Could Prevent The Onset Of Psychotic Disorders [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fish-oil-supplements-could-prevent-onset-psychotic-disorders/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Program Could Be Improved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975 Apr. Report No.: FPCD-75-107.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Woodland RJ. Investigating the role of the mid-Atlantic inner continental shelf as a marine finfish nursery: A comparative approach [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2010.

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

1. Robinson L. By the Banks of the Tigris. New York Times. 2011 Jan 23;BR10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Asia Pacific Family Medicine
Abbreviation	Asia Pac. Fam. Med.
ISSN (online)	1447-056X
Scope	Family Practice Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health