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

Brouwer, Piet W. 2012. “Physics. Enter the Majorana Fermion.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 336 (6084): 989–990.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rosenberg, Steven A., and Nicholas P. Restifo. 2015. “Adoptive Cell Transfer as Personalized Immunotherapy for Human Cancer.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 348 (6230): 62–68.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mitchell, Amir, Ping Wei, and Wendell A. Lim. 2015. “Oscillatory Stress Stimulation Uncovers an Achilles’ Heel of the Yeast MAPK Signaling Network.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 350 (6266): 1379–1383.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wardle, David A., Greger Hörnberg, Olle Zackrisson, Maarit Kalela-Brundin, and David A. Coomes. 2003. “Long-Term Effects of Wildfire on Ecosystem Properties across an Island Area Gradient.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300 (5621): 972–975.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joyner, Mark. 2009. Integration Marketing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mannion, A. M., ed. 2006. Carbon and Its Domestication. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Emigh, Rebecca Jean, Dylan Riley, and Patricia Ahmed. 2016. “The Turn to Race and Ethnicity in the UK Censuses.” In Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States: How Societies and States Count, edited by Dylan Riley and Patricia Ahmed, 121–146. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

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. 2015. “Living Longer, Sicker Lives? Make Lifestyle Changes To Remain Healthier In Old Age.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 2015. Information Security: FAA Needs to Address Weaknesses in Air Traffic Control Systems. GAO-15-221. 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

Machula, Miranda. 2014. “Understanding and Predicting Teachers’ Knowledge of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.” Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Dominus, Susan. 2015. “Stride Rights.” New York Times, April 23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brouwer 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Brouwer 2012; Rosenberg and Restifo 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rosenberg and Restifo 2015)
Three authors: (Mitchell, Wei, and Lim 2015)
4 or more authors: (Wardle et al. 2003)

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