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

Robinson, C. P. (2004). Revisiting the Baruch Plan. Nature, 432(7016), 441–442.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, W., & Yuan, D. (2014). Mesoporous carbon originated from non-permanent porous MOFs for gas storage and CO2/CH4 separation. Scientific Reports, 4, 5711.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bao, S., Chan, V. T., & Merzenich, M. M. (2001). Cortical remodelling induced by activity of ventral tegmental dopamine neurons. Nature, 412(6842), 79–83.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Sobol, R. W., Prasad, R., Evenski, A., Baker, A., Yang, X. P., Horton, J. K., & Wilson, S. H. (2000). The lyase activity of the DNA repair protein beta-polymerase protects from DNA-damage-induced cytotoxicity. Nature, 405(6788), 807–810.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Szczecinski, L., & Alvarado, A. (2014). Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Darling, L. F., Erickson, G., & Clarke, A. (Eds.). (2007). Collective Improvisation in a Teacher Education Community (Vol. 4). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Matsushita, M., & Schoenbaum, T. J. (2016). A Note on the China Rare Earths Case. In M. Matsushita & T. J. Schoenbaum (Eds.), Emerging Issues in Sustainable Development: International Trade Law and Policy Relating to Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment (pp. 79–98). Springer Japan.

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

Luntz, S. (2014, May 17). Stem Cell Therapy Success In Monkeys. 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. (1989). ADP Planning: SSA’s February 1989 Report on Computer Modernization Is Incomplete (IMTEC-89-76). 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

Clark, B. M. (2013). Faculty Perceptions of the Importance of Internationalizing the General Education Curriculum in the Florida College System [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Saslow, L. (2009, January 11). Putting Veterans First in the Job Market. New York Times, LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robinson, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Robinson, 2004; Wang & Yuan, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wang & Yuan, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Sobol et al., 2000)

About the journal

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