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

Grayson, M. (2013). Agriculture and drought. Nature, 501(7468), S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moffatt, H. K., & Shimomura, Y. (2002). Classical dynamics: spinning eggs--a paradox resolved. Nature, 416(6879), 385–386.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saborio, G. P., Permanne, B., & Soto, C. (2001). Sensitive detection of pathological prion protein by cyclic amplification of protein misfolding. Nature, 411(6839), 810–813.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Schafer, Z. T., Grassian, A. R., Song, L., Jiang, Z., Gerhart-Hines, Z., Irie, H. Y., et al. (2009). Antioxidant and oncogene rescue of metabolic defects caused by loss of matrix attachment. Nature, 461(7260), 109–113.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walker, M. (2013). Happy-People-Pills For All. Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell.

An edited book

Carson, E., & Huber, R. (Eds.). (2006). Intuition and the Axiomatic Method (Vol. 70). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhao, F.-J., Zang, C., & Luo, C. B. (2013). Standard System and Legal Protection of Food Security of Agricultural Special Products. In Z. Zhong (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications (IEA) 2012: Volume 5 (pp. 23–28). London: 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

Andrew, D. (2017, May 22). Scientists Have Found A Way To Photograph People In 3D Through Walls Using Wi-Fi. 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. (1972). Alleged Misappropriation of Monies Allocated for the Operation of the Memphis District Office of the EEOC (No. B-175042). 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

Pelayo, A. Y. (2017). A program to increase health literacy for older Latino adults residing in La Habra, California: A grant proposal (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

Belson, K., Medina, J., & Pérez-Peña, R. (2017, October 2). Sniper Inflicts ‘Total Chaos’ in Las Vegas; Police Seek a Motive as Death Toll Hits 59. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grayson 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Grayson 2013; Moffatt and Shimomura 2002).

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

Two authors: (Moffatt and Shimomura 2002)
Three or more authors: (Schafer et al. 2009)

About the journal

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