How to format your references using the China-EU Law Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for China-EU Law 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

Ratnieks F (2005) Outsmarted by ants. Nature 436:465

A journal article with 2 authors

Berman DE, Dudai Y (2001) Memory extinction, learning anew, and learning the new: dissociations in the molecular machinery of learning in cortex. Science 291:2417–2419

A journal article with 3 authors

Cohen IG, Savulescu J, Adashi EY (2015) Medicine. Transatlantic lessons in regulation of mitochondrial replacement therapy. Science 348:178–180

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Turnell AS, Stewart GS, Grand RJA, et al (2005) The APC/C and CBP/p300 cooperate to regulate transcription and cell-cycle progression. Nature 438:690–695

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burrows GE, Tyrl RJ (2012) Toxic Plants of North America. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Brewer ML, Marcum D (eds) (2008) Proceedings of the 16th International Meshing Roundtable. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Waseda Y, Matsubara E, Shinoda K (2011) Reciprocal Lattice and Integrated Intensities of Crystals. In: Matsubara E, Shinoda K (eds) X-Ray Diffraction Crystallography: Introduction, Examples and Solved Problems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 169–218

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-EU Law Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) After The Supermoon, Comes The Supertide. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1980) Increased Use of Expanded Function Dental Auxiliaries Would Benefit Consumers, Dentists, and Taxpayers. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Liu CC (2012) Charles T. Griffes’s “Roman Sketches”: A performer’s guide. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Judah B (2016) London rolls out the kleptocrats’ carpet. New York Times A9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ratnieks 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Berman and Dudai 2001; Ratnieks 2005).

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

Two authors: (Berman and Dudai 2001)
Three or more authors: (Turnell et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	China-EU Law Journal
ISSN (print)	1868-5153
ISSN (online)	1868-5161
Scope