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

Robinson, Ken. 2006. “Personal Finance. Making the Most of a Good Thing.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 313 (5792): 1456–1457.

A journal article with 2 authors

Khakh, Baljit S., and R. Alan North. 2006. “P2X Receptors as Cell-Surface ATP Sensors in Health and Disease.” Nature 442 (7102): 527–532.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takano, Akira, Toshiya Endo, and Tohru Yoshihisa. 2005. “TRNA Actively Shuttles between the Nucleus and Cytosol in Yeast.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 309 (5731): 140–142.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yapici, Nilay, Young-Joon Kim, Carlos Ribeiro, and Barry J. Dickson. 2008. “A Receptor That Mediates the Post-Mating Switch in Drosophila Reproductive Behaviour.” Nature 451 (7174): 33–37.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Roeder, Tres. 2013. Managing Project Stakeholders. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nishita, Tomoyuki, Qunsheng Peng, and Hans-Peter Seidel, eds. 2006. Advances in Computer Graphics: 24th Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2006, Hangzhou, China, June 26-28, 2006. Proceedings. Vol. 4035. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Alberti, Antônio Marcos. 2010. “Future Network Architectures: Technological Challenges and Trends.” In New Network Architectures: The Path to the Future Internet, edited by Tania Tronco, 79–120. Studies in Computational Intelligence. 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 Journal of Anthropology.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2016. “How The Brightest Supernovae Become Superluminous.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-the-brightest-supernovae-become-superluminous/.

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. 1993. Educational Achievement Standards: NAGB’s Approach Yields Misleading Interpretations. PEMD-93-12. 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

Fresolone, Christopher. 2012. “The Pedagogical Use of Gerald Near’s ‘Chantworks.’” Doctoral dissertation, Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

Hollander, Sophia. 2009. “Even Among Venerable Texts, A Torah Like No Other.” New York Times, March 8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robinson 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Robinson 2006; Khakh and North 2006).

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

Two authors: (Khakh and North 2006)
Three authors: (Takano, Endo, and Yoshihisa 2005)
4 or more authors: (Yapici et al. 2008)

About the journal

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