How to format your references using the The Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics. 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

Errico, A. (2015). Judge by actions, not words. Nature, 522(7557), 393.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kirwan, M. L., & Mudd, S. M. (2012). Response of salt-marsh carbon accumulation to climate change. Nature, 489(7417), 550–553.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meyron-Holtz, E. G., Ghosh, M. C., & Rouault, T. A. (2004). Mammalian tissue oxygen levels modulate iron-regulatory protein activities in vivo. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5704), 2087–2090.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Alvarez-Vasquez, F., Sims, K. J., Cowart, L. A., Okamoto, Y., Voit, E. O., & Hannun, Y. A. (2005). Simulation and validation of modelled sphingolipid metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nature, 433(7024), 425–430.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berto, F. (2009). There’s Something about Gödel. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Behrisch, M., Krajzewicz, D., & Weber, M. (Eds.). (2014). Simulation of Urban Mobility: First International Conference, SUMO 2013, Berlin, Germany, May 15-17, 2013. Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 8594). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Adams, J. P., Robinson, R. A., & Dudek, S. M. (2008). Role of Action Potentials in Regulating Gene Transcription: Relevance to LTP. In S. M. Dudek (Ed.), Transcriptional Regulation by Neuronal Activity: To the Nucleus and Back (pp. 91–110). Springer US.

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 Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, May 7). Biodegradable Plastic Option From Shrimp Shells. 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. (2011). Public Transportation: Washington Metro Could Benefit from Clarified Board Roles and Responsibilities, Improved Strategic Planning (GAO-11-660). 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

Xiao, S. (2012). Effects of adsorbates on the electronic properties of graphene [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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, S. (2003, February 1). City College Senior Seeks Yet Another Record. New York Times, D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Errico, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Errico, 2015; Kirwan & Mudd, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Kirwan & Mudd, 2012)
Three authors: (Meyron-Holtz et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Alvarez-Vasquez et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics
ISSN (print)	2092-5212
Scope	Business and International Management Management of Technology and Innovation Management Science and Operations Research Transportation