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

Blanchard, J.L., 2015. Climate change: A rewired food web. Nature 527, 173–174.

A journal article with 2 authors

Andersson, A.F., Banfield, J.F., 2008. Virus population dynamics and acquired virus resistance in natural microbial communities. Science 320, 1047–1050.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao, Y., Tong, C., Jiang, J., 2007. Hedgehog regulates smoothened activity by inducing a conformational switch. Nature 450, 252–258.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tilman, D., Reich, P.B., Knops, J., Wedin, D., Mielke, T., Lehman, C., 2001. Diversity and productivity in a long-term grassland experiment. Science 294, 843–845.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yanni, S.B., 2015. Translational ADMET for Drug Therapy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Long, S., Dhillon, B.S. (Eds.), 2014. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kreku, J., Tiensyrjä, K., Wieferink, A., Vanthournout, B., 2012. ASIP Exploration and Design, in: Soudris, D., Jantsch, A. (Eds.), Scalable Multi-Core Architectures: Design Methodologies and Tools. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 81–103.

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., 2014. Turn Water Into Ice Instantly! [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/turn-water-ice-instantly/ (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, 1990. Transportation Infrastructure: Flexibility in Federal-Aid Funding Essential to Highway Program Restructuring (No. T-RCED-91-4). 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

Matos, G., 2013. Re-fashioning goddesses: Exploring women’s archetypal fashion in the classroom (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Tabuchi, H., 2017. Kochs’ Strategy to Court Allies: Gospel and Gas. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blanchard, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Andersson and Banfield, 2008; Blanchard, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Andersson and Banfield, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Tilman et al., 2001)

About the journal

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