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| | | |  | Instructions to Authors [Download PDF, 408 KB] | | | | |  | The ASM Science Journal will follow the Harvard author-date style of referencing examples of which are given below. | | In the text, reference to a publication is by the author’s name and date of publication and page number if a quote is included, e.g. (Yusoff 2006, p. 89) or Yusoff (2006, p. 89) “conclude.......”
as the case may be. They should be cited in full if less than two names (e.g. Siva & Yusoff 2005) and if more than two authors, the work should be cited with first author followed by et al. (e.g. Siva et al. 1999). | | All works referred to or cited must be listed at the end of the text, providing full details and arranged alphabetically. Where more than one work by the same author is cited, they are arranged by date, starting with the earliest. Works by the same author published in the same year are ordered with the use of letters a, b, c, (e.g. Scutt, 2003a; 2003b) after the publication date to distinguish them in the citations in the text.
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| | | | |  | General Rules | | | | | Authors’ names: | Use only the initials of the authors’ given names. | | No full stops and no spaces are used between initials. | | | |
| Titles of works: | Use minimal capitalisation for the titles of books, book chapters and journal articles. | | In the titles of journals, magazines and newspapers, capital letters should be used as they appear normally. | | Use italics for the titles of books, journals and newspapers. | | Enclose titles of book chapters and journal articles in single quotation marks. | | | |
| Page numbering | Books: page numbers are not usually needed in the reference list. If they are, include them as the final item of the citation, separated from the preceding one by a comma and followed by a full stop. | | Journal articles: page numbers appear as the final item in the citation, separated from the preceding one by a comma and followed by a full stop. | | Use the abbreviations p. for a single page, and pp. for a page range, e.g. pp. 11-12 |
| Whole citation | The different details, or elements, of each citation are separated by commas | | The whole citation finishes with a full stop. |
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| | | | |  | | Specific Rules | | | | Definite rules for several categories of publications are provided below: | | | | | | | Journal
Kumar, P & Garde RJ 1989, ‘Potentials of water hyacinth for sewage treatment’, Research Journal of Water Pollution Control Federation, vol. 30 no. 10, pp. 291-294.
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Hyem, T & Kvale, O (eds) 1977, Physical, chemical and biological changes in food caused by thermal processing, 2nd edn, Applied Science Publishers, London, UK.
Enclose titles of book chapters and journal articles in single quotation marks. | | | | Chapter in a monograph
Biale, JB 1975, ‘Synthetic and degradative processes in fruit ripening’, in NF Hard and DK Salunkhe (eds), Postharvest biology and handling of fruits and vegetables, AVI, Westport, CT, pp. 5-18. | | | | Conference proceedings
Common, M 2001, ‘The role of economics in natural heritage decision making’, in Heritagee economics: challenges for heritage conservation and sustainable development in the 21st century: Proceedings of the International Society for Ecological Economics conference, Canberra, 4th July 2000, Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra. | | | | Report
McColloch, LP, Cook, HT & Wright, WR 1968, Market diseases of tomatoes, peppers and egg-plants, Agriculture Handbook no.28, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. | | | | Thesis
Cairns, RB 1965, Infrared spectroscopic studies of solid oxygen, PhD thesis University of California, Berkeley, CA. | | | | Footnotes, spelling and measurement units
If footnotes are used, they should be numbered in the text, indicated by superscript numbers and kept as brief as possible. The journal follows the spelling and hyphenation of standard British English. SI units of measurement are to be used at all times. | | | | |
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