How to format your references using the Asian Journal of Gambling Issues and Public Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Journal of Gambling Issues and Public Health. 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

Sachdev, H. (2015). MATERIALS SCIENCE. Disclosing boron’s thinnest side. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6267), 1468–1469.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rowley, J. J. L., & Alford, R. A. (2013). Hot bodies protect amphibians against chytrid infection in nature. Scientific reports, 3, 1515.

A journal article with 3 authors

McHenry, C. R., Cook, A. G., & Wroe, S. (2005). Bottom-feeding plesiosaurs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5745), 75.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nimmo, F., Spencer, J. R., Pappalardo, R. T., & Mullen, M. E. (2007). Shear heating as the origin of the plumes and heat flux on Enceladus. Nature, 447(7142), 289–291.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott, D. M. (2009). World Wide Rave. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Xu, J. (2011). Fuzzy-Like Multiple Objective Decision Making. (X. Zhou, Ed.) (Vol. 263). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gepts, P., Aragão, F. J. L., Barros, E. de, Blair, M. W., Brondani, R., Broughton, W., et al. (2008). Genomics of Phaseolus Beans, a Major Source of Dietary Protein and Micronutrients in the Tropics. In P. H. Moore & R. Ming (Eds.), Genomics of Tropical Crop Plants (pp. 113–143). New York, NY: 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 Asian Journal of Gambling Issues and Public Health.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2015, April 27). Hypnotic Time-Lapse Videos Showcase The Seldom Seen Movements of Nature. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hypnotic-timelapse-videos-nature/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1988). Federal Research: Small Business Involvement in Federal Research and Development (No. RCED-88-90BR). Washington, DC: 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

Herrera, K. (2010). Improved transportation for older adult volunteers: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Wagner, J. (2016, August 24). Mets Quickly Lose Niese to Injury but Still Get a Win. New York Times, p. B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sachdev 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Rowley and Alford 2013; Sachdev 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rowley and Alford 2013)
Three or more authors: (Nimmo et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asian Journal of Gambling Issues and Public Health
Abbreviation	Asian J. Gambl. Issues Public Health
ISSN (online)	2195-3007
Scope