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

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

Zaratiegui, Mikel. 2015. “Molecular Biology: RNA Interference Hangs by a Thread.” Nature 520 (7546): 162–164.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolf, Fred, and Frank Kirchhoff. 2008. “Neuroscience. Imaging Astrocyte Activity.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 320 (5883): 1597–1599.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schön, J. H., C. Kloc, and B. Batlogg. 2000. “Superconductivity in Molecular Crystals Induced by Charge Injection.” Nature 406 (6797): 702–704.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pérez, Yolanda, Mariano Maffei, Ana Igea, Irene Amata, Margarida Gairí, Angel R. Nebreda, Pau Bernadó, and Miquel Pons. 2013. “Lipid Binding by the Unique and SH3 Domains of C-Src Suggests a New Regulatory Mechanism.” Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 1295.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kramer-Moore, Daniela, and Michael Moore. 2012. Destructive Myths in Family Therapy. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Chen, Ke, and Anton Ravindran, eds. 2016. Forging Connections between Computational Mathematics and Computational Geometry: Papers from the 3rd International Conference on Computational Mathematics and Computational Geometry. Vol. 124. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Jansen, Christina, Florian Göbe, and Thomas Noll. 2014. “Generating Inductive Predicates for Symbolic Execution of Pointer-Manipulating Programs.” In Graph Transformation: 7th International Conference, ICGT 2014, Held as Part of STAF 2014, York, UK, July 22-24, 2014. Proceedings, edited by Holger Giese and Barbara König, 65–80. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, David Hutchison, Takeo Kanade, Josef Kittler, Jon M. Kleinberg, Alfred Kobsa, Friedemann Mattern, John C. Mitchell, et al. 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 Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2017. “NASA To Create The Coldest Place In Space.” IFLScience, IFLScience, March 7. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-to-create-the-coldest-place-in-space/.

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. 1992. Policy Guidance 1963-1986: Interview With Donald J. Horan, Eugene L. Pahl, and Allen R. Voss. OP-23-OH. 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

Danso Odei, Prince K. 2017. “Effective Resolution of The Bibiani-Anhwianso-Bekwai District Healthcare Delivery System: An Outcome-Based Evaluative Case.” Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Feeney, Kelly. 2008. “See Food Grow. Eat It There.” New York Times, August 31, 2008.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zaratiegui 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Zaratiegui 2015; Wolf and Kirchhoff 2008).

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

Two authors: (Wolf and Kirchhoff 2008)
Three authors: (Schön, Kloc, and Batlogg 2000)
4 or more authors: (Pérez et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy
Abbreviation	J. Asia Pac. Econ.
ISSN (print)	1354-7860
ISSN (online)	1469-9648
Scope	Development Geography, Planning and Development Political Science and International Relations