How to format your references using the Asian Population Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Population Studies. 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

Kerr, R. A. (2000). PLANETARY SCIENCE: Making a Splash With a Hint of Mars Water. Science (New York, N.Y.), 288(5475), 2295–2297.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brossard, D., & Scheufele, D. A. (2013). Social science. Science, new media, and the public. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6115), 40–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hayashi, K., Hasegawa, J., & Matsunaga, S. (2013). The boundary of the meristematic and elongation zones in roots: endoreduplication precedes rapid cell expansion. Scientific Reports, 3, 2723.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Nefedov, I. S., Valagiannopoulos, C. A., Hashemi, S. M., & Nefedov, E. I. (2013). Total absorption in asymmetric hyperbolic media. Scientific Reports, 3, 2662.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stenzel, J. (2010). CIO Best Practices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Walls, D. F., & Milburn, G. J. (Eds.). (2008). Quantum Optics. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Palivonaite, R., Fedaravicius, A., Aleksa, A., & Ragulskis, M. (2013). Near-Optimal Moire Grating for Chaotic Dynamic Visual Cryptography. In H. B. Zaman, P. Robinson, P. Olivier, T. K. Shih, & S. Velastin (Eds.), Advances in Visual Informatics: Third International Visual Informatics Conference, IVIC 2013, Selangor, Malaysia, November 13-15, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 48–58). 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 Population Studies.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, May 30). Hubble Captures New View Of The Vermin Galaxy And A Protoplanetary Disk. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (2008). Digital Television Transition: Information on the Implementation of the Converter Box Subsidy Program and Consumer Participation in the Program (GAO-08-1161T). 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

Charles, J.-G. (2017). African American Ninth-Grade Students’ Engagement and Learning in Mathematics: A Case Study of Parent-Teacher Collaboration [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral University.

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

Gustines, G. G. (2010, August 1). Savoring The Live Action. New York Times, ST9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kerr, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Brossard & Scheufele, 2013; Kerr, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Brossard & Scheufele, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Nefedov et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asian Population Studies
Abbreviation	Asian Popul. Stud.
ISSN (print)	1744-1730
ISSN (online)	1744-1749
Scope	Demography