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

Smith, R., 2000. Making hard light sharper. Nature 404, 345, 347.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, Y., Imlay, J.A., 2013. Cell death from antibiotics without the involvement of reactive oxygen species. Science 339, 1210–1213.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huo, C., Ouyang, J., Yang, H., 2014. CuO nanoparticles encapsulated inside Al-MCM-41 mesoporous materials via direct synthetic route. Sci. Rep. 4, 3682.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dymond, J.S., Richardson, S.M., Coombes, C.E., Babatz, T., Muller, H., Annaluru, N., Blake, W.J., Schwerzmann, J.W., Dai, J., Lindstrom, D.L., Boeke, A.C., Gottschling, D.E., Chandrasegaran, S., Bader, J.S., Boeke, J.D., 2011. Synthetic chromosome arms function in yeast and generate phenotypic diversity by design. Nature 477, 471–476.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gray, D.R.J.M., Al-Ani, D.M.Z., 2011. Temporomandibular Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Burgess, C., 2007. Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle, Springer Praxis Books. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Braune, N., Braune, J., 2014. Erich Fromm’s Socialist Program and Prophetic Messianism, in Two Parts, in: Miri, S.J., Lake, R., Kress, T.M. (Eds.), Reclaiming the Sane Society: Essays on Erich Fromm’s Thought. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 59–91.

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, D., 2016. Nightmares And Night Terrors In Kids: When Do They Stop Being Normal? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/nightmares-and-night-terrors-in-kids-when-do-they-stop-being-normal/ (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, 2012. Information Technology Reform: Progress Made; More Needs to Be Done to Complete Actions and Measure Results (No. GAO-12-745T). 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

Hao, S., 2013. An Introduction to Discrete Minimal Surfaces via the Enneper Surface (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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., 1993. Clinton Adds to Government to Help Him Subtract. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Liu and Imlay, 2013; Smith, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Liu and Imlay, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Dymond et al., 2011)

About the journal

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