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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Ghigo, J. M. (2001). Natural conjugative plasmids induce bacterial biofilm development. Nature, 412(6845), 442–445.
A journal article with 2 authors
Zoncu, R., & Sabatini, D. M. (2011). Cell biology. The TASCC of secretion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6032), 923–925.
A journal article with 3 authors
Chabanov, A. A., Stoytchev, M., & Genack, A. Z. (2000). Statistical signatures of photon localization. Nature, 404(6780), 850–853.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Cardin, J. A., Carlén, M., Meletis, K., Knoblich, U., Zhang, F., Deisseroth, K., et al. (2009). Driving fast-spiking cells induces gamma rhythm and controls sensory responses. Nature, 459(7247), 663–667.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Zhang, W., & Wan, M. (2016). Milling Simulation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
S, M., & Kumar, S. S. (Eds.). (2013). Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Signal and Image Processing 2012 (ICSIP 2012): Volume 1 (Vol. 221). New Delhi: Springer India.
A chapter in an edited book
Oneal, J. R., & Russett, B. M. (2015). The Kantian Peace: The Pacific Benefits of Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations, 1885–1992. In H. Starr (Ed.), Bruce M. Russett: Pioneer in the Scientific and Normative Study of War, Peace, and Policy (pp. 74–108). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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
Andrews, R. (2016, November 24). 7,000-Year-Old Lost Egyptian City Found By Archaeologists. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/7000yearold-lost-egyptian-city-found-by-archaeologists/. 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. (2004). Federal Research: Information on DOE’s Laboratory-Directed R&D Program (No. GAO-04-489). 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
Caldretti, M. (2017). Vocal Pedagogy and the Adolescent Female Singing Voice (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
Vecsey, G. (2011, July 28). An Underachieving Symbol of the Mets’ Lost Decade. New York Times, p. B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ghigo 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Ghigo 2001; Zoncu and Sabatini 2011).

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

  • Two authors: (Zoncu and Sabatini 2011)
  • Three or more authors: (Cardin et al. 2009)

About the journal

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

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