How to format your references using the Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education. 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	Download the output style file
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

Ashley-Ross, M. A. (2015). BIOMECHANICS. When it’s hip to be square. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6243), 30–31.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heldin, C. H., & Ericsson, J. (2001). Signal transduction. RIPping tyrosine kinase receptors apart. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5549), 2111–2113.

A journal article with 3 authors

Farnan, I., Cho, H., & Weber, W. J. (2007). Quantification of actinide alpha-radiation damage in minerals and ceramics. Nature, 445(7124), 190–193.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Siracusa, M. C., Saenz, S. A., Hill, D. A., Kim, B. S., Headley, M. B., Doering, T. A., Wherry, E. J., Jessup, H. K., Siegel, L. A., Kambayashi, T., Dudek, E. C., Kubo, M., Cianferoni, A., Spergel, J. M., Ziegler, S. F., Comeau, M. R., & Artis, D. (2011). TSLP promotes interleukin-3-independent basophil haematopoiesis and type 2 inflammation. Nature, 477(7363), 229–233.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Best, P. (2005). Implementing Value at Risk. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bermúdez, A. (2014). Mathematical Models and Numerical Simulation in Electromagnetism (D. Gómez & P. Salgado, Eds.; Vol. 74). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Chryssolouris, G., Mavrikios, D., & Pappas, M. (2008). A Web and Virtual Reality Based Paradigm for Collaborative Management and Verification of Design Knowledge. In A. Bernard & S. Tichkiewitch (Eds.), Methods and Tools for Effective Knowledge Life-Cycle-Management (pp. 91–105). 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 Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, December 17). Where Does Your Fat Go When You Lose Weight? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/where-does-your-fat-go-when-you-lose-weight/

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. (2004). Aviation Assistance: Compensation Criteria and Payment Equity under the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act (GAO-04-725R). 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

Crooks, R. H. (2012). Analysis Of The XY Spin 1/2 Model In Staggered Field And Networks Of D-Wave Josephson Junctions [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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

Pear, R., & Kelly, K. (2017, February 28). Trump Concedes Health Overhaul Is a Thorny Task. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ashley-Ross, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ashley-Ross, 2015; Heldin & Ericsson, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Heldin & Ericsson, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Siracusa et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education
ISSN (print)	1837-7122
ISSN (online)	1837-7130
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Education Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation