How to format your references using the China Information citation style

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

Eakin, C. Mark. Oceans. Lamarck was partially right--and that is good for corals. Science (New York, N.Y.) 344(6186) 2014, 798–99.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fisher, Charles R. and Peter Girguis. Microbiology. A proteomic snapshot of life at a vent. Science (New York, N.Y.) 315(5809) 2007, 198–99.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tuljapurkar, S., N. Li, and C. Boe. A universal pattern of mortality decline in the G7 countries. Nature 405(6788) 2000, 789–92.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kundu, Banani, Christoph J. Schlimp, Sylvia Nürnberger, Heinz Redl, and S. C. Kundu. Thromboelastometric and platelet responses to silk biomaterials. Scientific Reports 4 2014, 4945.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Omura, Yasuhisa, Abhijit Mallik, and Naoto Matsuo. MOS Devices for Low-Voltage and Low-Energy Applications. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, 2016.

An edited book

Kozarek, Richard, Todd Baron, and Ho-Young Song, eds. Self-Expandable Stents in the Gastrointestinal Tract. New York, NY: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Blake, Glen M. The Clinical Role of Bone Density Scans in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Osteoporosis. in Robert A. Adler (ed), Osteoporosis: Pathophysiology and Clinical Management. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2010. 77–95.

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 Information.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. The Arctic Is Experiencing Its Earliest Ever Snowmelt. IFLScience. IFLScience, 23 May 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/arctic-experiencing-its-earliest-ever-snowmelt/ (accessed 30 October 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. Intellectual Property: Observations on Efforts to Quantify the Economic Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, April 12, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sosa Tzec, Omar. Delightful Interactive Systems: A Rhetorical Examination. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 2017.

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

Schmitt, Eric, Michael R. Gordon, and Somini Sengupta. U.S. Ties Russia to Strike on U.N. Convoy in Syria. New York Times20 September 2016.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	China Information
ISSN (print)	0920-203X
ISSN (online)	1741-590X
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