How to format your references using the Asia Europe Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asia Europe Journal. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Wickware P (2000) Next-generation biologists must straddle computation and biology. Nature 404:683–684

A journal article with 2 authors

Lohmann U, Lesins G (2002) Stronger constraints on the anthropogenic indirect aerosol effect. Science 298:1012–1015

A journal article with 3 authors

Robinson GE, Fernald RD, Clayton DF (2008) Genes and social behavior. Science 322:896–900

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jo G-B, Lee Y-R, Choi J-H, et al (2009) Itinerant ferromagnetism in a Fermi gas of ultracold atoms. Science 325:1521–1524

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Poltorak AI, Lerner PJ (2011) Essentials of Intellectual Property. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Walther C, Gupta DK (eds) (2015) Radionuclides in the Environment: Influence of chemical speciation and plant uptake on radionuclide migration, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Liénard E, Ban G, Blieck J, et al (2007) The LPCTrap experiment: measurement of the β-ν angular correlation in 6He using a transparent Paul trap. In: Dilling J, Comyn M, Thompson J, Gwinner G (eds) TCP 2006: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Trapped Charged Particles and Fundamental Physics (TCP 2006) held in Parksville, Canada, 3–8 September, 2006. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 29–33

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 Asia Europe Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Why You Can Blame Evolution For Your Back Ache. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/evolution-blame-lower-back-pain/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1990) The Stafford Student Loan Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Diniega S (2010) Modeling aeolian dune and dune field evolution. Doctoral dissertation, 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

(nyt) SK (2005) World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Outcry At Claims Against Jews. New York Times A6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wickware 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Wickware 2000; Lohmann and Lesins 2002).

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

Two authors: (Lohmann and Lesins 2002)
Three or more authors: (Jo et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asia Europe Journal
Abbreviation	Asia Eur. J.
ISSN (print)	1610-2932
ISSN (online)	1612-1031
Scope	General Business, Management and Accounting General Social Sciences