How to format your references using the China Economic Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for China Economic Journal. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Chiang, T. 2000. “Catching Crumbs from the Table. In the Face of Metahuman Science, Humans Have Become Metascientists.” Nature 405 (6786): 517.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rice, W. R., and A. K. Chippindale. 2001. “Sexual Recombination and the Power of Natural Selection.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 294 (5542): 555–559.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gurley, Kyle A., Jochen C. Rink, and Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado. 2008. “Beta-Catenin Defines Head versus Tail Identity during Planarian Regeneration and Homeostasis.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 319 (5861): 323–327.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Jahanshahi, Peyman, Erfan Zalnezhad, Shamala Devi Sekaran, and Faisal Rafiq Mahamd Adikan. 2014. “Rapid Immunoglobulin M-Based Dengue Diagnostic Test Using Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor.” Scientific Reports 4 (January): 3851.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Uribe, Simón. 2017. Frontier Road. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Soomere, Tarmo, and Ewald Quak, eds. 2013. Preventive Methods for Coastal Protection: Towards the Use of Ocean Dynamics for Pollution Control. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

De Lucia, G. 2016. “Galaxy Evolution in the Era of Digital Surveys: A Theoretical Overview.” In The Universe of Digital Sky Surveys: A Meeting to Honour the 70th Birthday of Massimo Capaccioli, edited by Nicola R. Napolitano, Giuseppe Longo, Marcella Marconi, Maurizio Paolillo, and Enrichetta Iodice, 33–40. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. 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 China Economic Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Microbial Enzymes ‘Eat’ Cocaine, Could Be Novel Treatment For Abuse.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/microbial-enzymes-eat-cocaine-could-be-novel-treatment-abuse/.

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. 1989. Implementation of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act. T-HRD-89-8. 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

Jennings, Shelia. 2015. “Hiring, Promotions, and Identity Negotiation of Female Hiring Agents in American Corporate Retail.” Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Walsh, Mary Williams. 2010. “Last Mile May Be Hardest in Former A.I.G. Chief’s Legal Journey.” New York Times, April 21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chiang 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Chiang 2000; Rice and Chippindale 2001).

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

Two authors: (Rice and Chippindale 2001)
Three authors: (Gurley, Rink, and Sánchez Alvarado 2008)
4 or more authors: (Jahanshahi et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	China Economic Journal
Abbreviation	China Economic J.
ISSN (print)	1753-8963
ISSN (online)	1753-8971
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance Sociology and Political Science Cultural Studies