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

Arthur W (2002) The emerging conceptual framework of evolutionary developmental biology. Nature 415:757–764

A journal article with 2 authors

Boyd PW, Mackie D (2008) Comment on “The Southern Ocean biological response to aeolian iron deposition.” Science 319:159; author reply 159

A journal article with 3 authors

Javaux EJ, Knoll AH, Walter MR (2001) Morphological and ecological complexity in early eukaryotic ecosystems. Nature 412:66–69

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Arakawa K, Ono K, Isshiki M, et al (2007) Observation of the one-dimensional diffusion of nanometer-sized dislocation loops. Science 318:956–959

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pollak P (2011) Fine Chemicals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sabath F, Mokole EL (eds) (2014) Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics 10. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Dowbor L (2015) Economic Democracy: Meeting Some Management Challenges: Changing Scenarios in Brazil. In: Mancebo F, Sachs I (eds) Transitions to Sustainability. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 39–53

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

Luntz S (2014) Robot Crab To Give You Nightmares. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robot-crab-give-you-nightmares/. 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: FAA Is Making Progress But Important Challenges Remain. 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

Manuel DG (2019) Integrate or Innovate: Controlling Schedule Risk in Major Defense Acquisition Programs. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Kishkovsky S (2005) It’s Like “Sex and the City,” Only the City Is Moscow. New York Times E3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Arthur 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Arthur 2002; Boyd and Mackie 2008).

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

Two authors: (Boyd and Mackie 2008)
Three or more authors: (Arakawa et al. 2007)

About the journal

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