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

Smith, N. (2008). A blast wave from the 1843 eruption of eta Carinae. Nature, 455(7210), 201–203.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scher, H. D., & Martin, E. E. (2006). Timing and climatic consequences of the opening of Drake Passage. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5772), 428–430.

A journal article with 3 authors

Robertson, W. H., Diken, E. G., & Johnson, M. A. (2003). Chemistry. Snapshots of water at work. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5631), 320–321.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tanaka, K., Tengeiji, A., Kato, T., Toyama, N., & Shionoya, M. (2003). A discrete self-assembled metal array in artificial DNA. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5610), 1212–1213.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reed, S. M., & Hrci. (2017). The HRCI Official Body of Knowledge. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Csermely, D., & Regolin, L. (Eds.). (2013). Behavioral Lateralization in Vertebrates: Two Sides of the Same Coin. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ruzicka, F., Horka, M., & Hola, V. (2011). Extracellular Polysaccharides in Microbial Biofilm and Their Influence on the Electrophoretic Properties of Microbial Cells. In N. Volpi (Ed.), Capillary Electrophoresis of Carbohydrates: From Monosaccharides to Complex Polysaccharides (pp. 105–126). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

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

Taub, B. (2016, September 19). Was The Indus Valley Civilization Really A Non-Violent, Egalitarian Utopia? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/indus-valley-civilization-really-non-violent-egalitarian-utopia/. 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. (2008). Digital Television Transition: Information on the Implementation of the Converter Box Subsidy Program and Consumer Participation in the Program (No. GAO-08-1161T). 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

Lewis, P. A. (2012). Love and hate: The study of school principals moving from job motivation to job frustration (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, September 7). She Beat Her Stresses. Now Can She Beat Venus? New York Times, p. B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Scher and Martin 2006; Smith 2008).

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

Two authors: (Scher and Martin 2006)
Three or more authors: (Tanaka et al. 2003)

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