How to format your references using the Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology. 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

Smaglik, P., 2002. Going green: Ireland. Nature 416, 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, X.-Q., Xu, D., 2002. Calculating forest biomass changes in China. Science 296, 1359; discussion 1359.

A journal article with 3 authors

McNamara, A.K., van Keken, P.E., Karato, S.-I., 2002. Development of anisotropic structure in the Earth’s lower mantle by solid-state convection. Nature 416, 310–314.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

King, A.A., Ionides, E.L., Pascual, M., Bouma, M.J., 2008. Inapparent infections and cholera dynamics. Nature 454, 877–880.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Karr, R., 2009. Lead, Sell, or Get Out of the Way. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Yu, S., Guo, S. (Eds.), 2016. Big Data Concepts, Theories, and Applications, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Khassanchine, R.H., Timofeev, A.N., Galygin, A.N., Kostiuk, V.I., Tsvelev, V.M., 2006. INFLUENCE OF ELECTRON RADIATION ON OUTGASSING OF SPACECRAFT MATERIALS, in: Kleiman, J.I. (Ed.), PROTECTION OF MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES FROM THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT, Space Technology Proceedings. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 43–50.

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 Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. Humans Are Forcing New Species To Appear Through Unnatural Selection [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/humans-are-forcing-new-species-to-appear-through-unnatural-selection/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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. Bilingual Education: Four Overlapping Programs Could Be Consolidated (No. GAO-01-657). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gomes, S., 2010. The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act and the effects of deinstitutionalization on the mentally ill (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Marx, L., 2010. Elizabeth Greig and Jason Extein. New York Times ST15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2002; Zhang and Xu, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and Xu, 2002)
Three or more authors: (King et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology
Abbreviation	J. Asia. Pac. Entomol.
ISSN (print)	1226-8615
Scope	Insect Science