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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Kealey T. More is less. Economists and governments lag decades behind Derek Price’s thinking. Nature. 2000;405:279.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dioumaev VK, Bullock RM. A recyclable catalyst that precipitates at the end of the reaction. Nature. 2003;424:530–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Korswagen HC, Herman MA, Clevers HC. Distinct beta-catenins mediate adhesion and signalling functions in C. elegans. Nature. 2000;406:527–32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Liu F, Sun F, Xia JH, Li J, Fu GH, Lin G, et al. A genome scan revealed significant associations of growth traits with a major QTL and GHR2 in tilapia. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7256.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Anson EM. Alexander’s Heirs. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Marsh LK, Chapman CA, editors. Primates in Fragments: Complexity and Resilience. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Andersson M, Karlsson C. Regional Innovation Systems in Small and Medium-Sized Regions. In: Johansson B, Karlsson C, Stough R, editors. The Emerging Digital Economy: Entrepreneurship, Clusters, and Policy. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 55–81.

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. Luntz S. Sunscreen Is Killing Coral Reefs [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/sunscreen-killing-coral-reefs/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Inquiry About the Research Grant To Develop a Portable Computer To Record Traffic Information for Verifying the Accuracy of Charges for Telecommunications Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974 Mar. Report No.: B-180444.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Moss KA. The Development and Diffusion of the Cult of Isis in the Hellenistic Period [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2017.

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. Schmidt MS, Mazzetti M, Apuzzo M. Disputing Times Article About Inquiry Into Russia. New York Times. 2017 Jun 8;A21.

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