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

Smaglik P (2003) Forcing the market. Nature 426:735

A journal article with 2 authors

Wallenfang MR, Seydoux G (2000) Polarization of the anterior-posterior axis of C. elegans is a microtubule-directed process. Nature 408:89–92

A journal article with 3 authors

Arantes-Oliveira N, Berman JR, Kenyon C (2003) Healthy animals with extreme longevity. Science 302:611

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wardle DA, Hörnberg G, Zackrisson O, et al (2003) Long-term effects of wildfire on ecosystem properties across an island area gradient. Science 300:972–975

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

zur Hausen H (2006) Infections Causing Human Cancer. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Kalck P (ed) (2016) Homo- and Heterobimetallic Complexes in Catalysis: Cooperative Catalysis, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Daliot A, Dolev D (2005) Self-stabilization of Byzantine Protocols. In: Tixeuil S, Herman T (eds) Self-Stabilizing Systems: 7th International Symposium, SSS 2005, Barcelona, Spain, October 26-27, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 48–67

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

Carpineti A (2015) Unexplainable UFO Phenomena To Be Scientifically Analyzed In New Project. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ufodata-will-study-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-scientifically/. 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 (2009) School Facilities: Physical Conditions in School Districts Receiving Impact Aid for Students Residing on Indian Lands. 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

Manandhar R (2017) Synthesis and Characterization of Some Novel Dinitrosyl Diphosphine Iron Complexes. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Sisario B (2017) The ‘Coolest Man’ Heads to the Library. New York Times C21

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Wallenfang and Seydoux 2000; Smaglik 2003).

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

Two authors: (Wallenfang and Seydoux 2000)
Three or more authors: (Wardle et al. 2003)

About the journal

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

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