How to format your references using the Asia-Pacific Financial Markets citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asia-Pacific Financial Markets. 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

Nelson, F. E. (2003). Geocryology. (Un)frozen in time. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5613), 1673–1675.

A journal article with 2 authors

Guiver, M. D., & Lee, Y. M. (2013). Materials science. Polymer rigidity improves microporous membranes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6117), 284–285.

A journal article with 3 authors

Runnels, L. W., Yue, L., & Clapham, D. E. (2001). TRP-PLIK, a bifunctional protein with kinase and ion channel activities. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5506), 1043–1047.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lu, C., Hu, X., Yang, H., & Gong, Q. (2014). Chip-integrated ultrawide-band all-optical logic comparator in plasmonic circuits. Scientific reports, 4, 3869.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davis, T. B. (2011). Audel Industrial Multi-Craft Mini-Ref. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Parodi, G., & Sciulli, D. (Eds.). (2012). Social Exclusion: Short and Long Term Causes and Consequences. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD.

A chapter in an edited book

Verweij, M. (2011). Case Description: The Pharmaceutical Industry and the AIDS Crisis. In W. Dubbink, L. van Liedekerke, & H. van Luijk (Eds.), European Business Ethics Cases in Context: The Morality of Corporate Decision Making (pp. 33–45). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Financial Markets.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2015, October 29). Volkswagen Emissions Cover-Up Will Cause 59 Premature Deaths In America. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/volkswagen-emissions-cover-will-cause-59-premature-deaths-america/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2007). U.S. Involvement at Major International Air Shows Principally Depends on Agencies’ Missions and Aerospace Companies’ Resources (No. GAO-07-1165R). 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

Pak, C. H. (2015). A study of high-performing at-risk high school students and their perceptions on academic success and achievement (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Hu, W. (2016, August 3). Want to Relax at Park or Pool in New York? Join the Crowd. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nelson 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Guiver and Lee 2013; Nelson 2003).

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

Two authors: (Guiver and Lee 2013)
Three or more authors: (Lu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asia-Pacific Financial Markets
Abbreviation	Asia-Pac. Financ. Mark.
ISSN (print)	1387-2834
ISSN (online)	1573-6946
Scope	Finance