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

Helbing, D., 2013. Globally networked risks and how to respond. Nature 497, 51–59.

A journal article with 2 authors

Steig, E.J., Wolfe, A.P., 2008. Atmospheric science. Sprucing up Greenland. Science 320, 1595–1596.

A journal article with 3 authors

Merico, A., Tyrrell, T., Wilson, P.A., 2008. Eocene/Oligocene ocean de-acidification linked to Antarctic glaciation by sea-level fall. Nature 452, 979–982.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Samatey, F.A., Imada, K., Nagashima, S., Vonderviszt, F., Kumasaka, T., Yamamoto, M., Namba, K., 2001. Structure of the bacterial flagellar protofilament and implications for a switch for supercoiling. Nature 410, 331–337.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Darling-Hammond, L., Meyerson, D., LaPointe, M., Terry Orr, M., Barber, M., Cohen, C., Dailey, K., Davis, S., Flessa, J., Murphy, J., Pecheone, R., Tushnet, N., 2009. Preparing Principals for a Changing World. Jossey-Bas, San Francisco, CA, USA.

An edited book

Qin, Y., 2012. Global Well-posedness of Nonlinear Parabolic-Hyperbolic Coupled Systems, Frontiers in Mathematics. Springer, Basel.

A chapter in an edited book

Kulikowski, J.L., 2012. Human Activity Supporting by Deontological Knowledgebases, in: Hippe, Z.S., Kulikowski, Juliusz L., Mroczek, T. (Eds.), Human – Computer Systems Interaction: Backgrounds and Applications 2: Part 1, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 67–83.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2016. New Dark Spot Seen On Neptune For The First Time This Century [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-dark-spot-seen-on-neptune-for-the-first-time-this-century/ (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, 2000. Observations on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Fiscal Year 1999 Performance Report and Fiscal Year 2001 Performance Plan (No. NSIAD-00-192R). 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

Goldberg, D.S., 2010. Poly (amido amine) dendrimers: Transepithelial transport mechanisms and applications in oral drug delivery (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

St. John Kelly, E., 1998. Real Life Story: Tale of a Shipwreck and the Actor Who Lived to Tell About It. New York Times 147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Helbing, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Helbing, 2013; Steig and Wolfe, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Steig and Wolfe, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Samatey et al., 2001)

About the journal

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