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

Korte M (2008) Neuroscience. A protoplasmic kiss to remember. Science 319:1627–1628

A journal article with 2 authors

Scheuring S, Sturgis JN (2005) Chromatic adaptation of photosynthetic membranes. Science 309:484–487

A journal article with 3 authors

Wen J, Zhou S, Chen J (2014) Colorimetric detection of Shewanella oneidensis based on immunomagnetic capture and bacterial intrinsic peroxidase activity. Sci Rep 4:5191

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sachs K, Perez O, Pe’er D, et al (2005) Causal protein-signaling networks derived from multiparameter single-cell data. Science 308:523–529

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stoop I, Billiet J, Koch A, Fitzgerald R (2010) Improving Survey Response. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Hřebíček J, Schimak G, Kubásek M, Rizzoli AE (2013) Environmental Software Systems. Fostering Information Sharing: 10th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium, ISESS 2013, Neusiedl am See, Austria, October 9-11, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Kim HJ, Shim JC, Kim H-S, et al (2010) An Active Queue Management for QoS Guarantee of the High Priority Service Class. In: Kim T-H, Chang AC-C, Li M, et al (eds) Communication and Networking: International Conference, FGCN 2010, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2010, Jeju Island, Korea, December 13-15, 2010. Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 37–45

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

Davis J (2017) Do You Really Want To Know How Much Pee Is In A Public Swimming Pool? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/do-you-really-want-to-know-how-much-pee-is-in-a-public-swimming-pool/. 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 (1996) Information Technology Investment: Agencies Can Improve Performance, Reduce Costs, and Minimize Risks. 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

Martinez W (2010) “Straight Talk” on preventing HIV program—a grant thesis project. 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

Gustines GG (2015) Comics, Classic and Newer, Make a Comeback. New York Times B2

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