How to format your references using the Asian Journal of Gambling Issues and Public Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Journal of Gambling Issues and Public Health. 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

Wright, A. (2002). Art: Imagine space. Nature, 419(6906), 446.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knohl, A., & Veldkamp, E. (2011). Global change: indirect feedbacks to rising CO2. Nature, 475(7355), 177–178.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palazzo, A., Ackerman, B., & Gundersen, G. G. (2003). Cell biology: Tubulin acetylation and cell motility. Nature, 421(6920), 230.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pashkin, Y. A., Yamamoto, T., Astafiev, O., Nakamura, Y., Averin, D. V., & Tsai, J. S. (2003). Quantum oscillations in two coupled charge qubits. Nature, 421(6925), 823–826.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pevsner, J. (2005). Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Anagnostopoulos, C. D., Nihoyannopoulos, P., Bax, J. J., & Wall, E. van der (Eds.). (2006). Noninvasive Imaging of Myocardial Ischemia. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Batura, O., & Evas, T. (2016). Information Society Goes East: ICT Policy in the EU’s Eastern Partnership Cooperation Framework. In T. Kerikmäe & A. Chochia (Eds.), Political and Legal Perspectives of the EU Eastern Partnership Policy (pp. 39–57). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Asian Journal of Gambling Issues and Public Health.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 5). Flowers Pose A Health Risk For Bees. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/flowers-pose-health-risk-bees/. 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. (2004). Illegal Alien Schoolchildren: Issues in Estimating State-by-State Costs (No. GAO-04-733). 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

Beyer, P. D. (2010). Authentic Leadership in-extremis: A study of combat leadership (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Acosta, D., & Robles, F. (2017, October 20). Month After a Storm, Puerto Rico Awaits Power. 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 (Wright 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Knohl and Veldkamp 2011; Wright 2002).

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

Two authors: (Knohl and Veldkamp 2011)
Three or more authors: (Pashkin et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asian Journal of Gambling Issues and Public Health
Abbreviation	Asian J. Gambl. Issues Public Health
ISSN (online)	2195-3007
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