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

FitzGerald GA (2015) BIOMEDICINE. Bringing PGE₂ in from the cold. Science 348:1208–1209

A journal article with 2 authors

Dominé F, Shepson PB (2002) Air-snow interactions and atmospheric chemistry. Science 297:1506–1510

A journal article with 3 authors

Zimmet P, Alberti KG, Shaw J (2001) Global and societal implications of the diabetes epidemic. Nature 414:782–787

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Petersen KF, Befroy D, Dufour S, et al (2003) Mitochondrial dysfunction in the elderly: possible role in insulin resistance. Science 300:1140–1142

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woolson RF, Clarke WR (2002) Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Biomedical Data: Woolson/Statistical. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Jiang X, Bellon ORP, Goldgof D, Oishi T (2013) Advances in Depth Image Analysis and Applications: International Workshop, WDIA 2012, Tsukuba, Japan, November 11, 2012, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Rajruangrabin J, Ranatunga I, Popa DO (2012) Adaptive Interface Mapping for Intuitive Teleoperation of Multi-DOF Robots. In: Herrmann G, Studley M, Pearson M, et al (eds) Advances in Autonomous Robotics: Joint Proceedings of the 13th Annual TAROS Conference and the 15th Annual FIRA RoboWorld Congress, Bristol, UK, August 20-23, 2012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 49–60

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

Taub B (2016) Cannabis Studies Called Into Question As Research Weed Is Too Weak. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cannabis-studies-called-into-question-research-weed-too-weak/. 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 (2009) Financial Management Systems: DHS Faces Challenges to Successfully Consolidate Its Existing Disparate Systems. 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

Emenyonu NI (2012) Barriers to HIV care in rural Uganda. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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 MW (2016) Puerto Rico Debt Bill Takes Step. New York Times B3

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