How to format your references using the Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology. 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

Barbier, E.B., 2014. Disaster Management. A global strategy for protecting vulnerable coastal populations. Science 345, 1250–1251.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rignot, E., Thomas, R.H., 2002. Mass balance of polar ice sheets. Science 297, 1502–1506.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scholey, J.M., Brust-Mascher, I., Mogilner, A., 2003. Cell division. Nature 422, 746–752.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Johnson, P.A., Savage, H., Knuth, M., Gomberg, J., Marone, C., 2008. Effects of acoustic waves on stick-slip in granular media and implications for earthquakes. Nature 451, 57–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nellist, J.G., 2005. Understanding Telecommunications and Lightwave Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Dittmar, T., Zänker, K.S. (Eds.), 2011. Cell Fusion in Health and Disease, 1st ed, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

De, S., Bhattacharyya, S., Chakraborty, S., Dutta, P., 2016. Self-supervised Grey Level Image Segmentation Using Multi-Objective-Based Optimised MUSIG (OptiMUSIG) Activation Function, in: Bhattacharyya, S., Chakraborty, S., Dutta, P. (Eds.), Hybrid Soft Computing for Multilevel Image and Data Segmentation, Computational Intelligence Methods and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 125–152.

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 Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Friend Or Foe: What The Shape Of Your Face Says About You [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/friend-or-foe-what-shape-your-face-says-about-you/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1999. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Compliance Status Information on Biomedical Equipment (No. T-AIMD-00-26). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Shockley, C., 2010. Mental health parity law: A policy analysis (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

Kelly, M.A., 2003. BUSINESS TRAVEL: ON THE GROUND -- Paris; A City of Good Food, Fashion and Corporate Drama. New York Times C8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barbier, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Barbier, 2014; Rignot and Thomas, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Rignot and Thomas, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Johnson et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology
Abbreviation	J. Asia. Pac. Entomol.
ISSN (print)	1226-8615
Scope	Insect Science