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

Schllwa M (2000) Centrioles go for a stroll. Nature 405(6784), 292.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang D and L Lu (2007) Anti-correlation of summer/winter monsoons? Nature 450(7168), E7-8; discussion E8-9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maiorano D, J Moreau, and M Méchali (2000) XCDT1 is required for the assembly of pre-replicative complexes in Xenopus laevis. Nature 404(6778), 622–625.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rocha J, FJRC Coelho, L Peixe, NCM Gomes, and R Calado (2014) Optimization of preservation and processing of sea anemones for microbial community analysis using molecular tools. Scientific Reports 4, 6986.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Diels J-C and L Arissian (2011) Lasers. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Barwell R, P Clarkson, A Halai, M Kazima, J Moschkovich, N Planas, M Setati-Phakeng, P Valero, and M Villavicencio Ubillús (Eds.) (2016) Mathematics Education and Language Diversity: The 21st ICMI Study 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang H, B Zhao, I Vrcek, JM Johnston, and Y-G He (2012) Role of Malondialdehyde in the Age-Related Macular Degeneration. In Studies on Retinal and Choroidal Disorders, eds. RD Stratton, WW Hauswirth, and TW Gardner, 85–93. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

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

Andrew D (2017, March 8) Our Experiments Taught Us Why People Troll. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/our-experiments-taught-us-why-people-troll/ (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 (1989) State Department: Problems in the Diplomatic Courier System (No. NSIAD-89-39). 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

Harvey TN (2016) Effects of low pass filtered input on adult non-lexical intonation in second language acquisition (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Barron J (2017, February 8) A Historic Home Burns, and Suspicions Spread. New York Times, p. A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schllwa 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Schllwa 2000; Zhang and Lu 2007).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and Lu 2007)
Three authors: (Maiorano, Moreau, and Méchali 2000)
6 or more authors: (Rocha, Coelho, Peixe, Gomes, and Calado 2014)

About the journal

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