How to format your references using the Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources (APJHR). 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

Reichhardt T (2005) Internet star shoots for a rocket revolution. Nature 438(7069), 736–737.

A journal article with 2 authors

Medema JP and L Vermeulen (2011) Microenvironmental regulation of stem cells in intestinal homeostasis and cancer. Nature 474(7351), 318–326.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gupta AK, DM Anderson, and JT Overpeck (2003) Abrupt changes in the Asian southwest monsoon during the Holocene and their links to the North Atlantic Ocean. Nature 421(6921), 354–357.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Argyris A, D Syvridis, L Larger, V Annovazzi-Lodi, P Colet, I Fischer, J García-Ojalvo, CR Mirasso, L Pesquera, and KA Shore (2005) Chaos-based communications at high bit rates using commercial fibre-optic links. Nature 438(7066), 343–346.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paschedag AR (2004) CFD in der Verfahrenstechnik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Zaidi MK (Ed.) (2007) Wastewater Reuse–Risk Assessment, Decision-Making and Environmental Security. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Frederico E and JG Parente (2009) Determinants of Relationship Continuity between Fashion Retailers and Suppliers in Brazil. In European Retail Research, eds. B Swoboda, D Morschett, T Rudolph, P Schnedlitz, and H Schramm-Klein, 87–115. Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden.

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 Human Resources.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015, March 4) World’s Most Accurate Clock Loses Just 1 Second Every 16 Billion Years. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/worlds-most-accurate-clocks-unveiled/ (accessed October 30, 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 (1988) NATO-Warsaw Pact: U.S. and Soviet Perspectives of the Conventional Force Balance (No. NSIAD-89-23A). 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

Davenport LC (2008) Behavior and ecology of the Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) in oxbow lakes of the Manú Biosphere Reserve, Perú (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Walsh MW (2015, December 19) Puerto Rico Utility and Bondholders Agree to Keep Working on a Deal. New York Times, p. B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reichhardt 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Medema and Vermeulen 2011; Reichhardt 2005).

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

Two authors: (Medema and Vermeulen 2011)
Three authors: (Gupta, Anderson, and Overpeck 2003)
6 or more authors: (Argyris et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources
ISSN (print)	1038-4111
ISSN (online)	1744-7941
Scope