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

Perkins, Karen. 2014. “For the Love of Ferns.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 346 (6216): 1586.

A journal article with 2 authors

Misra, Abha, and Praveen Kumar. 2013. “Periodic Architecture for High Performance Shock Absorbing Composites.” Scientific Reports 3: 2056.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schumacher, M. A., B. K. Hurlburt, and R. G. Brennan. 2001. “Crystal Structures of SarA, a Pleiotropic Regulator of Virulence Genes in S. Aureus.” Nature 409 (6817): 215–219.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Giraud, A., I. Matic, O. Tenaillon, A. Clara, M. Radman, M. Fons, and F. Taddei. 2001. “Costs and Benefits of High Mutation Rates: Adaptive Evolution of Bacteria in the Mouse Gut.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 291 (5513): 2606–2608.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kwartler, Ted. 2017. Text Mining in Practice with R. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Petersen, Timothy J., Susan E. Sprich, and Sabine Wilhelm, eds. 2016. The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. 1st ed. 2016. Current Clinical Psychiatry. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ingrascì, Ombretta. 2007. “Women in the ‘Ndrangheta: The Serraino-Di Giovine Case.” In Women and the Mafia, edited by Giovanni Fiandaca, 47–52. STUDIES IN ORGANIZED CRIME. New York, NY: 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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Surfer Narrowly Avoids Being Killed By Shark Live On Camera.” 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. 1995. General Government Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. AA-95-33(3). 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

Keels, Donn. 2014. “An Analysis of the Correlation between Teacher Effectiveness and Student Standardized Test Scores.” Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Kelly, Stephen R. 2013. “Bonjour, America!” New York Times, July 24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Perkins 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Perkins 2014; Misra and Kumar 2013).

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

Two authors: (Misra and Kumar 2013)
Three authors: (Schumacher, Hurlburt, and Brennan 2001)
4 or more authors: (Giraud et al. 2001)

About the journal

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