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

Minteer, B., 2014. Is it right to reverse extinction? Nature 509, 261.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, J., Cheng, J.-X., 2014. Direct visualization of de novo lipogenesis in single living cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 6807.

A journal article with 3 authors

Colón-Ramos, D.A., Margeta, M.A., Shen, K., 2007. Glia promote local synaptogenesis through UNC-6 (netrin) signaling in C. elegans. Science 318, 103–106.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kimura, T., Goto, T., Shintani, H., Ishizaka, K., Arima, T., Tokura, Y., 2003. Magnetic control of ferroelectric polarization. Nature 426, 55–58.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Geren, R.L., 2016. Applying the Building Code. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Satapathy, S.C., Bhatt, Y.C., Joshi, A., Mishra, D.K. (Eds.), 2016. Proceedings of the International Congress on Information and Communication Technology: ICICT 2015, Volume 1, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Hupkens, I., Deutz, A., Yang, K., Emmerich, M., 2015. Faster Exact Algorithms for Computing Expected Hypervolume Improvement, in: Gaspar-Cunha, A., Henggeler Antunes, C., Coello, C.C. (Eds.), Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization: 8th International Conference, EMO 2015, Guimarães, Portugal, March 29 --April 1, 2015. Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 65–79.

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. Testing Ancient Human Hearing Via Fossilized Ear Bones [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/testing-ancient-human-hearing-fossilized-ear-bones/ (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, 1982. GAO Reports Concerning Federal Student Financial Aid Programs (No. 117445). 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

Tourijigian, L., 2015. Fiscal Changes at Dunbar Elementary (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Wagner, J., 2016. For the Mets, a Middleman on Call 24/7. New York Times D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Minteer, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Li and Cheng, 2014; Minteer, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Li and Cheng, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kimura et al., 2003)

About the journal

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