MEASUREMENT SCIENCE REVIEW                                                          

 Main Page


Guide for Authors

Instructions for Authors on References

Introduction

This document describes standards for preparing the references in the APA style. The following sections give detailed instructions on citing books, journal articles, newspaper articles, conference papers, theses, webpages and others.

Please provide all the required elements in the references to your paper. Please pay particular attention to spelling, capitalization and punctuation. Accuracy and completeness of references are the responsibilities of the author. Before submitting your article, please ensure you have checked your paper for any relevant references you may have missed.

 
References (examples):
 
Book
[1]     Kleiner, F.S., Mamiya C.J. & Tansey R.G. (2001). Gardner’s art through the ages (11th ed.). Fort Worth, USA: Harcourt College Publishers.
 
Book chapter or article in an edited book
[2]    Roll W.P. (1976). ESP and memory. In J.M.O. Wheatley & H.L. Edge (Eds.), Philosophical dimensions of parapsychology (pp. 154-184). Springfield, IL: American Psychiatric Press.
 
Proceedings from a conference
[3]   Field, G. (2001). Rethinking reference rethought. In Revelling in Reference: Reference and Information Services Section Symposium, 12-14 October 2001 (pp. 59-64). Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Australian Library and Information Association.
 
E-book
[4]   Johnson, A. (2000). Abstract Computing Machines. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Retrieved March 30, 2006, from SpringerLink http://springerlink.com/content/w25154.
 
Thesis
[5]   Begg, M. M. (2001). Dairy farm women in the Waikato 1946-1996: Fifty years of social and structural change. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
 
Report
[6]   Osgood, D. W., & Wilson, J. K. (1990). Covariation of adolescent health problems. Lincoln: University of Nebraska. (NTIS No. PB 91-154 377/AS)
 
Government publication
[7]   Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy. (1997). The national drug strategy: Mapping the future. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service.
 
Journal Article
[8]   Cudak, M. & Karcz J. (2006). Momentum transfer in an agitated vessel with off-centred impellers. Chem. Pap. 60(5), 375-380. 
 
Journal article from an online database
[9]   Czajgucki Z., Zimecki M. & Andruszkiewicz R. (2006, December). The immunoregulatory effects of edeine analogues in mice [Abstract]. Cell. Mol. Biol. Lett. 12(3), 149-161. Retrieved December 6, 2006, from PubMed database on the World Wide Web: http://www.pubmed.gov.
 
Newspaper article (no author)
[10]    Amazing Amazon region. (1989, January 12). New York Times, p. D11.
 
Encyclopedia article
[11]      Bergmann, P. G. (1993). Relativity. In The new encyclopedia britannica (Vol. 26, pp. 501- 
         508). Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica.
 
Web page
[12]      Walker, J. (1996, August). APA-style citations of electronic resources. Retrieved November
          21, 2001, from http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/apa.html  
 
Lecture note
[13]      Liffers, M. (2006, August 30). Finding information in the library. Lecture notes
         distributed in the unit Functional Anatomy and Sports Performance 1102, University of
          Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia.
 
Patent
[14]      Smith, I. M. (1988). U.S. Patent No. 123,445. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent and    
         Trademark Office.
 
Standard
[15]      Standards Association of Australia. (1997). Australian standard: Pressure equipment
           manufacture. AS4458-1997. North Sydney.
 
Video
[16]      Zhang, Y. (Producer/Director). (2000). Not one less [Motion Picture]. China: Columbia
           Pictures Industries, Inc.
 
Audio recording
[17]      Taupin, B. (1975). Someone saved my life tonight [Recorded by Elton John]. On 
          Captain fantastic and the brown dirt cowboy [CD]. London: Big Pig Music Limited.
 
Mailing list
[18]      Hammond, T. (2000, November 20). YAHC: Handle Parameters, DOI Genres, etc.
          Message posted to Ref-Links electronic mailing list, archived at
           http://www.doi.org/mail-archive/ref-link/msg00088.html  
 
Computer software
[19]      Ludwig, T. (2002). PsychInquiry [computer software]. New York: Worth.