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

Cummins, P. R. (2007). The potential for giant tsunamigenic earthquakes in the northern Bay of Bengal. Nature, 449(7158), 75–78.

A journal article with 2 authors

Basler, M., & Mekalanos, J. J. (2012). Type 6 secretion dynamics within and between bacterial cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6096), 815.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arp, G., Reimer, A., & Reitner, J. (2001). Photosynthesis-induced biofilm calcification and calcium concentrations in Phanerozoic oceans. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5522), 1701–1704.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Iwase, T., Tajima, A., Sugimoto, S., Okuda, K.-I., Hironaka, I., Kamata, Y., Takada, K., & Mizunoe, Y. (2013). A simple assay for measuring catalase activity: a visual approach. Scientific Reports, 3, 3081.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baldwin, P. (2010). OSx86. Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Marsalek, J., Stancalie, G., & Balint, G. (Eds.). (2006). Transboundary Floods: Reducing Risks Through Flood Management (Vol. 72). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Wolf, M. P., & Koons, J. R. (2016). Interests, Embodiment, and Constraint by the World. In J. R. Koons (Ed.), The Normative and the Natural (pp. 139–177). 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. (2013, November 18). Mission to Mars: MAVEN to Explore the Red Planet’s Atmosphere. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mission-mars-maven-explore-red-planet’s-atmosphere/

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. (2002). Weekend Settlement: Potential Benefits, Costs, and Legal Issues (GAO-02-938). 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

Fischer, D. (2012). Psychology and people living with hiv/aids: A critical review of the literature [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Walsh, M. W., & Story, L. (2011, May 9). Seeking Business, States Loosen Insurance Rules. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cummins, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Basler & Mekalanos, 2012; Cummins, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Basler & Mekalanos, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Iwase et al., 2013)

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)