How to format your references using the Asia Pacific Journal on Computational Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asia Pacific Journal on Computational Engineering. 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

Meijer GI (2008) Materials science. Who wins the nonvolatile memory race? Science 319:1625–1626

A journal article with 2 authors

Kruglyak L, Stern DL (2007) Evolution. An embarrassment of switches. Science 317:758–759

A journal article with 3 authors

Ng B, Cai W, Walsh K (2014) The role of the SST-thermocline relationship in Indian Ocean Dipole skewness and its response to global warming. Sci Rep 4:6034

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zimmerman SC, Wendland MS, Rakow NA, et al (2002) Synthetic hosts by monomolecular imprinting inside dendrimers. Nature 418:399–403

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin DA (2006) Water-Quality Engineering in Natural Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Barkalov A (2016) Logic Synthesis for FPGA-Based Finite State Machines. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Lara MD, Doyen L (2008) Viable sequential decisions. In: Doyen L (ed) Sustainable Management of Natural Resources: Mathematical Models and Methods. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 73–106

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 on Computational Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) Wasps and honeybees can remember individual faces. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wasps-and-honeybees-can-remember-individual-faces/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1971) Airport Safety Inspection Program Needed To Improve Flight Safety of Civil Aircraft. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Lee S (2016) Data-driven computer vision for science and the humanities. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Pilon M (2012) ‘Everyone Wants to See Zara.’ New York Times B13

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Asia Pacific Journal on Computational Engineering
ISSN (online)	2196-1166
Scope