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

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

McNutt M (2014) A new look. Science 344:781

A journal article with 2 authors

Gray RD, Jordan FM (2000) Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion. Nature 405:1052–1055

A journal article with 3 authors

Bar-Yam Y, Harmon D, de Bivort B (2009) Systems biology. Attractors and democratic dynamics. Science 323:1016–1017

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen XJ, Wang X, Kaufman BA, Butow RA (2005) Aconitase couples metabolic regulation to mitochondrial DNA maintenance. Science 307:714–717

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dean JR (2005) Practical Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy: Dean/Plasma. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Hepburn HR, Radloff SE (eds) (2011) Honeybees of Asia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Faure C (2013) Visceral Sensitivity. In: Faure C, Di Lorenzo C, Thapar N (eds) Pediatric Neurogastroenterology: Gastrointestinal Motility and Functional Disorders in Children. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 37–48

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 Finance and Economic Review.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) The Milky Way’s Halo Spins With The Galaxy. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-milky-ways-halo-spins-with-the-galaxy/. 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 (1981) Social Security Needs To Better Plan, Develop, and Implement Its Major ADP Systems Redesign Projects. 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

Holby N (2017) School Counselors and Their Experiences Implementing Comprehensive Programs. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Vecsey G (2010) Settled in the City, But Still in a Hurry Every Weekend. New York Times B18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McNutt 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gray and Jordan 2000; McNutt 2014).

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

Two authors: (Gray and Jordan 2000)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	China Finance and Economic Review
Abbreviation	China Fin. Econ. Rev.
ISSN (online)	2196-5633
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