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

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

Pockley, P. 2000. “Tax Blow Leaves Australian Science Reeling.” Nature 405 (6785): 387.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rohde, Robert A., and Richard A. Muller. 2005. “Cycles in Fossil Diversity.” Nature 434 (7030): 208–210.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morgan, Jacob L. W., Joanna Strumillo, and Jochen Zimmer. 2013. “Crystallographic Snapshot of Cellulose Synthesis and Membrane Translocation.” Nature 493 (7431): 181–186.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Roberson, Erik D., Kimberly Scearce-Levie, Jorge J. Palop, Fengrong Yan, Irene H. Cheng, Tiffany Wu, Hilary Gerstein, Gui-Qiu Yu, and Lennart Mucke. 2007. “Reducing Endogenous Tau Ameliorates Amyloid Beta-Induced Deficits in an Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Model.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 316 (5825): 750–754.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gros, Daniel, and Karel Lannoo. 2004. The Euro Capital Market. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Reissig, Michael, and Bert-Wolfgang Schulze, eds. 2005. New Trends in the Theory of Hyperbolic Equations. Vol. 159. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, Advances in Partial Differential Equations. Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Ter Louw, Mike, Phu H. Phung, Rohini Krishnamurti, and Venkat N. Venkatakrishnan. 2013. “SafeScript: JavaScript Transformation for Policy Enforcement.” In Secure IT Systems: 18th Nordic Conference, NordSec 2013, Ilulissat, Greenland, October 18-21, 2013, Proceedings, edited by Hanne Riis Nielson and Dieter Gollmann, 67–83. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 the Asia Pacific Economy.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “This Font Simulates What It’s Like To Have Dyslexia.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 2010. Statewide Transportation Planning: Opportunities Exist to Transition to Performance-Based Planning and Federal Oversight. GAO-11-77. 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

Thompson, Paula. 2012. “An Exploratory Study of Work-Related Imagined Interactions with Real-Life Coworkers.” Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

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

Wagner, James. 2017. “Kershaw Could Be Out as Long as Six Weeks.” New York Times, July 25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pockley 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Pockley 2000; Rohde and Muller 2005).

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

Two authors: (Rohde and Muller 2005)
Three authors: (Morgan, Strumillo, and Zimmer 2013)
4 or more authors: (Roberson et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy
Abbreviation	J. Asia Pac. Econ.
ISSN (print)	1354-7860
ISSN (online)	1469-9648
Scope	Development Geography, Planning and Development Political Science and International Relations