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

Kintisch, E. (2015). The science of schmoozing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6223), 798.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, T., & Overgaard, J. (2007). Ecology. The heartbreak of adapting to global warming. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5808), 49–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thornton, J. W., Need, E., & Crews, D. (2003). Resurrecting the ancestral steroid receptor: ancient origin of estrogen signaling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5640), 1714–1717.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Clayton, E., Doupé, D. P., Klein, A. M., Winton, D. J., Simons, B. D., & Jones, P. H. (2007). A single type of progenitor cell maintains normal epidermis. Nature, 446(7132), 185–189.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Soprano, A. (2015). Liquidity Management. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bickmore, T., Marsella, S., & Sidner, C. (Eds.). (2014). Intelligent Virtual Agents: 14th International Conference, IVA 2014, Boston, MA, USA, August 27-29, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 8637). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Mehling, H., & Cabeza, L. F. (2008). Heat transfer basics. In L. F. Cabeza (Ed.), Heat and cold storage with PCM: An up to date introduction into basics and applications (pp. 105–136). 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 Social Work and Development.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, June 24). Stunning Rainbow of Fluorescent Corals Discovered in the Red Sea. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/stunning-rainbow-fluorescent-corals-discovered-red-sea/

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. (1997). Commercial Trucking: Safety Concerns About Mexican Trucks Remain Even as Inspection Activity Increases (RCED-97-68). 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

Nam, S. (2010). A method for teaching jazz improvisation to beginning pianists in a group setting [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Feeney, K. (2010, August 8). Always on Offer: Fresh Fish, a Relaxed Vibe. New York Times, NJ5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kintisch, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kintisch, 2015; Wang & Overgaard, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Wang & Overgaard, 2007)
Three authors: (Thornton et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Clayton et al., 2007)

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)