How to format your references using the Asian Population Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Population Studies. 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	Download the output style file
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

Rochmyaningsih, D. (2015). Don’t distort policy in the name of national pride. Nature, 523(7560), 257.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fang, J., & McCutchan, T. F. (2002). Thermoregulation in a parasite’s life cycle. Nature, 418(6899), 742.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hubbell, J. A., Thomas, S. N., & Swartz, M. A. (2009). Materials engineering for immunomodulation. Nature, 462(7272), 449–460.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hajkova, P., Ancelin, K., Waldmann, T., Lacoste, N., Lange, U. C., Cesari, F., Lee, C., Almouzni, G., Schneider, R., & Surani, M. A. (2008). Chromatin dynamics during epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line. Nature, 452(7189), 877–881.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Conrick, C., IV, & Hanson, S. (2013). Vertical Option Spreads. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kim, W., Ding, Y., & Kim, H.-G. (Eds.). (2014). Semantic Technology: Third Joint International Conference, JIST 2013, Seoul, South Korea, November 28--30, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 8388). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Chopra, S., Shim, S., & Steffy, D. E. (2015). A few strong knapsack facets. In B. Defourny & T. Terlaky (Eds.), Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications: MOPTA, Bethlehem, PA, USA, August 2014 Selected Contributions (pp. 77–94). 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 Population Studies.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, November 12). Copper Can Destroy Respiratory Viruses. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/copper-destroys-respiratory-viruses/

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. (1971). Activities at the Regional Finance and Data Processing Center in Paris, France (B-146703). 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

Hong, H. J. (2017). Acrolein Modification of Human Apolipoprotein A-I Impairs Binding to Phosphatidylglycerol and Lipopolysaccharide of Gram-Negative Bacteria [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

Vecsey, G. (2011, May 1). Football’s Absolute Power Corrupts Colleges Absolutely. New York Times, SP10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rochmyaningsih, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Fang & McCutchan, 2002; Rochmyaningsih, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Fang & McCutchan, 2002)
Three authors: (Hubbell et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Hajkova et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asian Population Studies
Abbreviation	Asian Popul. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1744-1730
ISSN (online)	1744-1749
Scope	Demography