How to format your references using the China Journal of Accounting Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for China Journal of Accounting Research. 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

Rashed, R., 2002. Portraits of science. A polymath in the 10th century. Science 297, 773.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wood, B.J., Halliday, A.N., 2005. Cooling of the Earth and core formation after the giant impact. Nature 437, 1345–1348.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wender, P.A., Kee, J.-M., Warrington, J.M., 2008. Practical synthesis of prostratin, DPP, and their analogs, adjuvant leads against latent HIV. Science 320, 649–652.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Proskurowski, G., Lilley, M.D., Seewald, J.S., Früh-Green, G.L., Olson, E.J., Lupton, J.E., Sylva, S.P., Kelley, D.S., 2008. Abiogenic hydrocarbon production at lost city hydrothermal field. Science 319, 604–607.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The American Ceramic Society, 2009. Progress in Nanotechnology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Isaías, P., Spector, J.M., Ifenthaler, D., Sampson, D.G. (Eds.), 2015. E-Learning Systems, Environments and Approaches: Theory and Implementation. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Johansson, J., Hassel, H., 2012. Modelling, Simulation and Vulnerability Analysis of Interdependent Technical Infrastructures, in: Hokstad, P., Utne, I.B., Vatn, J. (Eds.), Risk and Interdependencies in Critical Infrastructures: A Guideline for Analysis, Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London, pp. 49–65.

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 Journal of Accounting Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Salmon Sperm Could Help Us Recycle Rare Earth Elements [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/salmon-sperm-could-help-us-recycle-rare-earth-elements/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1994. Job Training Partnership Act: Labor Title IV Initiatives Could Improve Relations With Native Americans (No. HEHS-94-67). 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

Mani, V., 2011. Empirical study of link between operations and financial performance for retailers (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Medina, J., Pérez-Peña, R., Goldman, A., 2017. Meticulous Plan To Rain Carnage On Concertgoers. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rashed, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Rashed, 2002; Wood and Halliday, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Wood and Halliday, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Proskurowski et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	China Journal of Accounting Research
Abbreviation	China J. Acc. Res.
ISSN (print)	1755-3091
Scope	Accounting Finance