How to format your references using the Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development. 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

Giles, J. (2002). Attosecond science: the fast show. Nature, 420(6917), 737.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rez, P., & Treacy, M. M. J. (2013). Three-dimensional imaging of dislocations. Nature, 503(7476), E1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Spencer, T. J., Osborn, T., & Kohl, P. A. (2008). Materials science. High-frequency chip connections. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5877), 756–757.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Daffis, S., Szretter, K. J., Schriewer, J., Li, J., Youn, S., Errett, J., Lin, T.-Y., Schneller, S., Zust, R., Dong, H., Thiel, V., Sen, G. C., Fensterl, V., Klimstra, W. B., Pierson, T. C., Buller, R. M., Gale, M., Jr, Shi, P.-Y., & Diamond, M. S. (2010). 2’-O methylation of the viral mRNA cap evades host restriction by IFIT family members. Nature, 468(7322), 452–456.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ccps. (2017). Guidelines for Combustible Dust Hazard Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kumari, V., Bob, P., & Boutros, N. N. (Eds.). (2014). Electrophysiology and Psychophysiology in Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology (Vol. 21). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Tiwari, R., & Herstatt, C. (2014). Growing Demand for Affordable Solutions. In C. Herstatt (Ed.), Aiming Big with Small Cars: Emergence of a Lead Market in India (pp. 61–87). Springer International Publishing.

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 Social Work and Development.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, April 14). What Are The Chances That Climate Change Is “Natural”? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-are-chances-climate-change-natural/

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. (1980). Oversight of Federally Sponsored Research and Development (113733). 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

Woo, C. (2008). Cross-Cultural Encounter and the Novel: Nation, Identity, and Genre in Nineteenth-Century British Literature [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Gustines, G. G. (2016, October 3). Comic Book Looks at Harsh Life in Syria. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Giles, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Giles, 2002; Rez & Treacy, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Rez & Treacy, 2013)
Three authors: (Spencer et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Daffis et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development
Abbreviation	Asia Pac. J. Soc. Work
ISSN (print)	0218-5385
ISSN (online)	2165-0993
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous)