How to format your references using the Asia Pacific Management Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asia Pacific Management Review. 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

Elderfield, H. (2010). Climate. Seawater chemistry and climate. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5969), 1092–1093.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ding, H.-M., & Ma, Y.-Q. (2013). Controlling cellular uptake of nanoparticles with pH-sensitive polymers. Scientific Reports, 3, 2804.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hwang, C.-S., Shemorry, A., & Varshavsky, A. (2010). N-terminal acetylation of cellular proteins creates specific degradation signals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5968), 973–977.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Foukal, P., Fröhlich, C., Spruit, H., & Wigley, T. M. L. (2006). Variations in solar luminosity and their effect on the Earth’s climate. Nature, 443(7108), 161–166.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stull, C., Myers, P., & Scott, D. M. (2008). Tuned In. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Obaidat, M. S., & Lorenz, P. (Eds.). (2016). E-Business and Telecommunications: 12th International Joint Conference, ICETE 2015, Colmar, France, July 20–22, 2015, Revised Selected Papers (1st ed. 2016, Vol. 585). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Pollack, G. (2007). Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life: A Fresh Physically Based Paradigm for Cell Function. In R. Magjarevic & J. H. Nagel (Eds.), World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006: August 27 – September 1, 2006 COEX Seoul, Korea “Imaging the Future Medicine” (pp. 4–4). 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 Management Review.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, June 8). Sea Snakes Have A Unique Sense For Detecting Underwater Movement. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sea-snakes-have-a-unique-sense-for-detecting-underwater-movement/

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. (1991). Railroad Safety: Weaknesses in FRA’s Safety Program (T-RCED-91-32). 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

Warwick-Smith, K. M. (2017). Remembering Prudence: Tracking the Iconography of a Cardinal Virtue to Her Resurgence in Depth Psychology [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, March 2). Nakom. New York Times, C11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Elderfield, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Ding & Ma, 2013; Elderfield, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Ding & Ma, 2013)
Three authors: (Hwang et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Foukal et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asia Pacific Management Review
Abbreviation	Asia Pac. Manag. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1029-3132
Scope	Business and International Management Strategy and Management