How to format your references using the Asia-Pacific Financial Markets citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asia-Pacific Financial Markets. 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

Xu, X. (2014). Surface recombination and charged exciton in nanocrystal quantum dots on photonic crystals under two-photon excitation. Scientific reports, 4, 5039.

A journal article with 2 authors

McNamara, A. K., & Zhong, S. (2005). Thermochemical structures beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean. Nature, 437(7062), 1136–1139.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, F., Lam, C.-H., & Tsui, O. K. C. (2014). Materials science. The surface mobility of glasses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6174), 975–976.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ule, J., Jensen, K. B., Ruggiu, M., Mele, A., Ule, A., & Darnell, R. B. (2003). CLIP identifies Nova-regulated RNA networks in the brain. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5648), 1212–1215.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnson, D. W., & Woodward, J. L. (2010). Release. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rajeshwar, K., McConnell, R., & Licht, S. (Eds.). (2008). Solar Hydrogen Generation: Toward a Renewable Energy Future. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Napier, M. (2009). Making Urban Land Markets Work Better in South African Cities and Towns: Arguing the Basis for Access by the Poor. In S. V. Lall, M. Freire, B. Yuen, R. Rajack, & J.-J. Helluin (Eds.), Urban Land Markets: Improving Land Management for Successful Urbanization (pp. 71–97). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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-Pacific Financial Markets.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, April 1). Japanese Government Panel Finds ‘Breakthrough’ Stem Cell Study Used Falsified Data. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/japanese-government-panel-finds-‘breakthrough’-stem-cell-study-used-falsified/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1995). Charter Schools: New Model for Public Schools Provides Opportunities and Challenges (No. HEHS-95-42). 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

Greenhall, J. A. (2008). Elucidating mechanisms of accelerated neurological aging (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, December 5). Court Reviews Race as Factor In School Plans. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Xu 2014).
This sentence cites two references (McNamara and Zhong 2005; Xu 2014).

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

Two authors: (McNamara and Zhong 2005)
Three or more authors: (Ule et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asia-Pacific Financial Markets
Abbreviation	Asia-Pac. Financ. Mark.
ISSN (print)	1387-2834
ISSN (online)	1573-6946
Scope	Finance