[Number] Author(s), “Title of Article,” Title of Journal, Volume(Issue), pp. xx-xx, Year.

If you submit to the Journal of Turbomachinery (ASME) and use APA style, the editor assumes you are not a member of the ASME community. They assume you are an outsider who does not read the literature. Before they even read your abstract, you have lost credibility.

Furthermore, the numbered system is superior for technical editing. When you insert a new citation between ² and ³ , you do not renumber everything manually. (You use a reference manager like Zotero or EndNote that supports the "ASME Citation Style.") Doing it manually is a nightmare. | Source Type | Format Example | | :--- | :--- | | Journal Article | ¹ T. Bergman, “Radiation in Enclosures,” J. Thermophys. Heat Transfer , 45(3), pp. 210-219, 2019. | | Book | ² F. Incropera, Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer , 8th ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2017. | | Conference Paper | ³ S. Lee, “Turbulence Modeling,” in Proc. ASME Turbo Expo , Oslo, Norway, Jun. 11-15, 2018, pp. 45-52. | | Standard | ⁴ ASME, “ASME Y14.5: Dimensioning and Tolerancing,” New York: ASME, 2018. | The Final Verdict The ASME Citation Guide is not a style guide; it is a reader efficiency protocol . It strips away parenthetical clutter to let the math and data breathe. It prioritizes retrieval speed over bibliographic nuance.