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

Broer, D. J. (2014). Applied physics: A new view on displays. Nature, 511(7508), 159–160.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brasier, M., & Antcliffe, J. (2004). Paleobiology. Decoding the Ediacaran enigma. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5687), 1115–1117.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dalton, C. A., Langmuir, C. H., & Gale, A. (2014). Geophysical and geochemical evidence for deep temperature variations beneath mid-ocean ridges. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6179), 80–83.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Carol, R. J., Takeda, S., Linstead, P., Durrant, M. C., Kakesova, H., Derbyshire, P., et al. (2005). A RhoGDP dissociation inhibitor spatially regulates growth in root hair cells. Nature, 438(7070), 1013–1016.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wind, Y. J., & Hays, C. F. (2015). Beyond Advertising. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yülek, M. (Ed.). (2015). Economic Planning and Industrial Policy in the Globalizing Economy: Concepts, Experience and Prospects (Vol. 13). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Nieberler, M., Kittel, R. J., Petrenko, A. G., Lin, H.-H., & Langenhan, T. (2016). Control of Adhesion GPCR Function Through Proteolytic Processing. In T. Langenhan & T. Schöneberg (Eds.), Adhesion G Protein-coupled Receptors: Molecular, Physiological and Pharmacological Principles in Health and Disease (pp. 83–109). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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, E. (2015, August 8). Watch Elon Musk’s Moving “Solid Metal Snake” Charge A Tesla Car. 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. (1997). Health, Education and Human Services Information Systems Issue Area--Active Assignments (No. AA-97-29(1)). 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

De La Cruz, E. (2014). School social work programing for an elementary school: A grant writing project (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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, January 24). Justices Curb States’ Immunity From Suit. New York Times, p. A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Broer 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Brasier and Antcliffe 2004; Broer 2014).

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

Two authors: (Brasier and Antcliffe 2004)
Three or more authors: (Carol et al. 2005)

About the journal

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