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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for China Economic Review. 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	Download the output style file
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

Janssen, M. A. (2012). Elinor Ostrom (1933-2012). Nature, 487(7406), 172.

A journal article with 2 authors

Birch, J. M., & Dickinson, M. H. (2001). Spanwise flow and the attachment of the leading-edge vortex on insect wings. Nature, 412(6848), 729–733.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rasmussen, L. E. L., Riddle, H. S., & Krishnamurthy, V. (2002). Mellifluous matures to malodorous in musth. Nature, 415(6875), 975–976.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wang, J., Yao, Z., Lei, T., & Poon, A. W. (2014). Silicon coupled-resonator optical-waveguide-based biosensors using light-scattering pattern recognition with pixelized mode-field-intensity distributions. Scientific Reports, 4, 7528.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bunnell, T. (2016). From World City to the World in One City. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gutiérrez-López, G. F., Barbosa-Cánovas, G. V., Welti-Chanes, J., & Parada-Arias, E. (Eds.). (2008). Food Engineering: Integrated Approaches. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Xia, Y., & Fu, M. (2013). The Descriptions of Flight Vehicle. In M. Fu (Ed.), Compound Control Methodology for Flight Vehicles (pp. 55–64). Springer.

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 Review.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, June 13). Observatory Snaps Most Detailed Image Of A Galaxy From The Ground. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/observatory-snaps-most-detailed-image-of-a-galaxy-from-the-ground/

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). Federal Research: Assessment of Small Business Innovation Research Programs (RCED-89-39). 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

Cebada-Ricalde, M. C. (2014). Synthesis and characterization of PANI-coated VGCNFs and evaluation of its use for corrosion inhibition [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State 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

Gustines, G. G. (2015, February 22). From ‘Rocket Girl’ to Karaoke Superstar. New York Times, MB2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Janssen, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Birch & Dickinson, 2001; Janssen, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Birch & Dickinson, 2001)
Three authors: (Rasmussen et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	China Economic Review
Abbreviation	China Econ. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1043-951X
Scope	Economics and Econometrics Finance