How to format your references using the Asia-Pacific Journal of Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asia-Pacific Journal of Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation and Technology. 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

Wilson RI. Eppendorf 2007 winner. Neural circuits underlying chemical perception. Science. 2007;318(5850):584-585.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bose SK, Marder TB. ORGANIC CATALYSIS. A leap ahead for activating C-H bonds. Science. 2015;349(6247):473-474.

A journal article with 3 authors

Semenov V, Dyadechkin S, Punsly B. Simulations of jets driven by black hole rotation. Science. 2004;305(5686):978-980.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cruz-Monserrate Z, Roland CL, Deng D, et al. Targeting pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma acidic microenvironment. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4410.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wasson CS. System Analysis, Design, and Development. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Valderrabano V, Easley M, eds. Foot and Ankle Sports Orthopaedics. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu M, Zhang D, Yap PT, Shen D. Hierarchical Ensemble of Multi-level Classifiers for Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease. In: Wang F, Shen D, Yan P, Suzuki K, eds. Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: Third International Workshop, MLMI 2012, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2012, Nice, France, October 1, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2012:27-35.

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 Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation and Technology.

Blog post

Evans K. Boaty McBoatface Submarine Set To Attempt Epic Arctic Trip. IFLScience. October 18, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/boaty-mcboatface-submarine-set-to-attempt-epic-arctic-trip/

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. Office of Personnel Management: Agency Needs to Improve Outcome Measures to Demonstrate the Value of Its Innovation Lab. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lynch LE. Financial Regulation and Economic Performance: A Descriptive Correlation Study of American Financial Institutions. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix; 2013.

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

Hodara S. A Handmade Sea of Sparkling Glass. New York Times. January 3, 2016:WE9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Asia-Pacific Journal of Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Rehabilitation and Technology
Abbreviation	Asia Pac. J. Sports Med. Arthrosc. Rehabil. Technol.
ISSN (print)	2214-6873
Scope