How to format your references using the The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Dijkstra, J. M. (2014). TH2 and Treg candidate genes in elephant shark. Nature, 511(7508), E7-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sullenger, B. A., & Gilboa, E. (2002). Emerging clinical applications of RNA. Nature, 418(6894), 252–258.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rey, P. F., Coltice, N., & Flament, N. (2014). Spreading continents kick-started plate tectonics. Nature, 513(7518), 405–408.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Vigne, J.-D., Guilaine, J., Debue, K., Haye, L., & Gérard, P. (2004). Early taming of the cat in Cyprus. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5668), 259.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hitz, C. B., Ewing, J., & Hecht, J. (2012). Introduction to Laser Technology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mahrwald, R. (Ed.). (2011). Enantioselective Organocatalyzed Reactions II: Asymmetric C-C Bond Formation Processes. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, Y., Ai, H., Huang, C., & Lao, S. (2006). Robust Head Tracking with Particles Based on Multiple Cues Fusion. In T. S. Huang, N. Sebe, M. S. Lew, V. Pavlović, M. Kölsch, A. Galata, & B. Kisačanin (Eds.), Computer Vision in Human-Computer Interaction: ECCV 2006 Workshop on HCI, Graz, Austria, May 13, 2006. Proceedings (pp. 29–39). 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 The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, August 31). Here’s Why You Should Be Sleeping Naked. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2011). Aviation Security: TSA’s Revised Cost Comparison Provides a More Reasonable Basis for Comparing the Costs of Private-Sector and TSA Screeners (No. GAO-11-375R). 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

Warren, J. S. (2012). Trust in immediate supervisor, trust in top management, organizational trust precursors: Predictors of organizational effectiveness (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Pilon, M. (2014, October 2). With Ban on Wrestling Between Boys and Girls, Diocese Faces a Crossroads. New York Times, p. B16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dijkstra 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Dijkstra 2014; Sullenger and Gilboa 2002).

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

Two authors: (Sullenger and Gilboa 2002)
Three or more authors: (Vigne et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
ISSN (print)	0119-5646
ISSN (online)	2243-7908
Scope	Education