How to format your references using the Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education. 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

Adam, D. (2000). Plastics that conduct win inventors chemistry prize. Nature, 407(6805), 662.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krupovic, M., & Bamford, D. H. (2011). Virology. Revealing virus-host interplay. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6038), 45–46.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shapiro, L., McAdams, H. H., & Losick, R. (2002). Generating and exploiting polarity in bacteria. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5600), 1942–1946.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sandoval, H., Thiagarajan, P., Dasgupta, S. K., Schumacher, A., Prchal, J. T., Chen, M., & Wang, J. (2008). Essential role for Nix in autophagic maturation of erythroid cells. Nature, 454(7201), 232–235.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang, Q. (2013). Practical Design of Magnetostatic Structure Using Numerical Simulation. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd.

An edited book

Zhao, M., & Sha, J. (Eds.). (2012). Communications and Information Processing: International Conference, ICCIP 2012 Aveiro, Portugal, March 7-11, 2012 Revised Selected Papers, Part I (Vol. 288). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Knudsen, T. L. (2011). On the Application of Areas in the Śulbasūtras. In B. S. Yadav & M. Mohan (Eds.), Ancient Indian Leaps into Mathematics (pp. 63–73). Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

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-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, May 16). Please Don’t Put Bison In Your Car, Even If It Looks Cold. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/yellowstone-tourists-put-bison-their-car-because-they-were-worried-it-was-cold/. 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. (2007). Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites: Restructuring Is Under Way, but Challenges and Risks Remain (No. GAO-07-910T). 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

Schreiber, J. S. (2016). Discursive constructions of decline: Narratives of illness and financial stress among residents in assisted living (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

Barron, J. (2017, February 26). Where’s the Art? at a Hamptons Center, Look Behind the Wall. New York Times, p. A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Adam 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Adam 2000; Krupovic and Bamford 2011).

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

Two authors: (Krupovic and Bamford 2011)
Three or more authors: (Sandoval et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
ISSN (online)	2363-5169
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