How to format your references using the Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources (APJHR). 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

Park RW (2014) Anthropology. Stories of Arctic colonization. Science (New York, N.Y.) 345(6200), 1004–1005.

A journal article with 2 authors

Raser JM and EK O’Shea (2004) Control of stochasticity in eukaryotic gene expression. Science (New York, N.Y.) 304(5678), 1811–1814.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gagneux P, JJ Moore, and A Varki (2005) The ethics of research on great apes. Nature 437(7055), 27–29.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Schulteis G, SH Ahmed, AC Morse, GF Koob, and BJ Everitt (2000) Conditioning and opiate withdrawal. Nature 405(6790), 1013–1014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rajagopal R (2014) Sustainable Value Creation in the Fine and Speciality Chemicals Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Sarro F and K Deb (Eds.) (2016) Search Based Software Engineering: 8th International Symposium, SSBSE 2016, Raleigh, NC, USA, October 8-10, 2016, Proceedings Vol. 9962. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Srinivasan V, M Mohamed, and H Kato (2014) Melatonin: Its Microbicidal Properties and Clinical Applications. In Melatonin and Melatonergic Drugs in Clinical Practice, eds. V. Srinivasan, A Brzezinski, S Oter, and SD Shillcutt, 57–69. Springer India, New Delhi.

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 Human Resources.

Blog post

Hale T (2016, October 10) Underwater Explosions In Slow-Motion Look Absolutely Awesome. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/underwater-explosions-in-slow-motion-look-absolutely-awesome/ (accessed October 30, 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 (2001) Aviation Security: Weaknesses in Airport Security and Options for Assigning Screening Responsibilities (No. GAO-01-1165T). 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

Koester A (2017) It All Started on a Lake (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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 M (1992, December 29) Clinton Delays Trip To Work, Pack Up And Fill More Jobs. New York Times, p. A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Park 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Park 2014; Raser and O’Shea 2004).

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

Two authors: (Raser and O’Shea 2004)
Three authors: (Gagneux, Moore, and Varki 2005)
6 or more authors: (Schulteis, Ahmed, Morse, Koob, and Everitt 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources
ISSN (print)	1038-4111
ISSN (online)	1744-7941
Scope