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

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

Bunk, Steve. 2001. “Sandia Scientists Develop Instruments at the Crossroads.” Nature 410 (6824): 128–129.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peña, J. L., and M. Konishi. 2001. “Auditory Spatial Receptive Fields Created by Multiplication.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 292 (5515): 249–252.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kippenberg, T. J., R. Holzwarth, and S. A. Diddams. 2011. “Microresonator-Based Optical Frequency Combs.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 332 (6029): 555–559.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Parks, Susan E., Dana A. Cusano, Alison K. Stimpert, Mason T. Weinrich, Ari S. Friedlaender, and David N. Wiley. 2014. “Evidence for Acoustic Communication among Bottom Foraging Humpback Whales.” Scientific Reports 4 (December): 7508.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McDonald, André G., and Hugh L. Magande. 2012. Introduction to Thermo-Fluids Systems Design. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Xu, Jianliang, Ge Yu, Shuigeng Zhou, and Rainer Unland, eds. 2011. Database Systems for Adanced Applications: 16th International Conference, DASFAA 2011, International Workshops: GDB, SIM3, FlashDB, SNSMW, DaMEN, DQIS, Hong Kong, China, April 22-25, 2011. Proceedings. Vol. 6637. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Heuser, Marie-Luise. 2011. “The Significance of Naturphilosophie for Justus and Hermann Grassmann.” In From Past to Future: Graßmann’s Work in Context: Graßmann Bicentennial Conference, September 2009, edited by Hans-Joachim Petsche, Albert C. Lewis, Jörg Liesen, and Steve Russ, 49–59. Basel: 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 Journal of Anthropology.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. 2017. “‘Cave Squeaker’ Frog Found For First Time In 55 Years.” 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. 2006. Rail Transit: Observations on FTA’s State Safety Oversight Program. GAO-06-997T. 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

Barrett, Brandon T. 2015. “Modernizing Copyright for Equitable Treatment in the Streaming Age.” Doctoral dissertation, Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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. 2016. “Forget the Waist; It’s More About the Wrist.” New York Times, September 29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bunk 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Bunk 2001; Peña and Konishi 2001).

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

Two authors: (Peña and Konishi 2001)
Three authors: (Kippenberg, Holzwarth, and Diddams 2011)
4 or more authors: (Parks et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
ISSN (print)	1444-2213
ISSN (online)	1740-9314
Scope	Anthropology Cultural Studies