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

Sundqvist, B. (2014). Mapping intermolecular bonding in C₆₀. Scientific reports, 4, 6171.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miller, F. D., & Kaplan, D. R. (2002). Neurobiology. TRK makes the retrograde. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5559), 1471–1473.

A journal article with 3 authors

Taggart, A. K. P., Teng, S.-C., & Zakian, V. A. (2002). Est1p as a cell cycle-regulated activator of telomere-bound telomerase. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5583), 1023–1026.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Vocadlo, L., Alfè, D., Gillan, M. J., Wood, I. G., Brodholt, J. P., & Price, G. D. (2003). Possible thermal and chemical stabilization of body-centred-cubic iron in the Earth’s core. Nature, 424(6948), 536–539.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kraehmer, H., & Baur, P. (2013). Weed Anatomy. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Koutsojannis, C., & Sirmakessis, S. (Eds.). (2009). Tools and Applications with Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 166). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Carrara, S. (2014). New Concepts in Human Telemetry. In W. Burleson & S. Carrara (Eds.), Security and Privacy for Implantable Medical Devices (pp. 93–128). New York, NY: Springer.

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

Luntz, S. (2015, April 6). Personalized Cancer Vaccines Pass Early Test. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/personalized-cancer-vaccines-pass-early-test/. 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. (2004). Distance Education: Improved Data on Program Costs and Guidelines on Quality Assessments Needed to Inform Federal Policy (No. GAO-04-279). 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

Patel, V. M. (2010). Sparse and redundant representations for inverse problems and recognition (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Cooper, M. (2017, May 15). Met Opera Numbers Inch Up. New York Times, p. C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sundqvist 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Miller and Kaplan 2002; Sundqvist 2014).

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

Two authors: (Miller and Kaplan 2002)
Three or more authors: (Vocadlo 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

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