How to format your references using the Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education. 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	Download the output style file
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

Betts, R. A. (2000). Offset of the potential carbon sink from boreal forestation by decreases in surface albedo. Nature, 408(6809), 187–190.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mahowald, M. W., & Schenck, C. H. (2005). Insights from studying human sleep disorders. Nature, 437(7063), 1279–1285.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, Y., Duan, Z., & Fan, D. (2013). An ion diffusion method for visualising a solid-like water nanofilm. Scientific Reports, 3, 3505.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nielsen, P. R., Nietlispach, D., Mott, H. R., Callaghan, J., Bannister, A., Kouzarides, T., Murzin, A. G., Murzina, N. V., & Laue, E. D. (2002). Structure of the HP1 chromodomain bound to histone H3 methylated at lysine 9. Nature, 416(6876), 103–107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kampen, T. U. (2010). Low Molecular Weight Organic Semiconductors. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Anastasiadis, K., & Ratnatunga, C. (Eds.). (2007). The Thymus Gland: Diagnosis and Surgical Management. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bandyopadhyay, S., & Saha, S. (2013). Point Symmetry-Based Distance Measures and Their Applications to Clustering. In S. Saha (Ed.), Unsupervised Classification: Similarity Measures, Classical and Metaheuristic Approaches, and Applications (pp. 93–123). 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 Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2017, January 17). New Trilobite Species Explains Longstanding Footprint Mystery. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-trilobite-species-explains-longstanding-footprint-mystery/

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). Taxpayer Information: Data Sharing and Analysis May Enhance Tax Compliance and Improve Immigration Eligibility Decisions (GAO-04-972T). 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

Osterhout, H. L. (2010). No More “Mad Money”: Salvaging the Commander’s Emergency Response Program [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2015, September 14). Russian Local Elections Draw Charges of Fraud. New York Times, A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Betts, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Betts, 2000; Mahowald & Schenck, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Mahowald & Schenck, 2005)
Three authors: (Wang et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Nielsen et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education
ISSN (print)	1837-7122
ISSN (online)	1837-7130
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Education Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation