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

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

Mabberley, D. J. (2009). Plant science. Exploring terra incognita. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5926), 472.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bezanilla, F., & Perozo, E. (2002). Structural biology. Force and voltage sensors in one structure. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5598), 1562–1563.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, X., Zhao, J., & Yang, J. (2013). Semihydrogenated BN sheet: a promising visible-light driven photocatalyst for water splitting. Scientific Reports, 3, 1858.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Elde, N. C., Child, S. J., Geballe, A. P., & Malik, H. S. (2009). Protein kinase R reveals an evolutionary model for defeating viral mimicry. Nature, 457(7228), 485–489.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fullman, S. H. (2010). Increasing Alpha with Options. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wang, X., Wang, F., & Zhong, S. (Eds.). (2012). Electrical, Information Engineering and Mechatronics 2011: Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Electrical, Information Engineering and Mechatronics (EIEM 2011) (Vol. 138). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bateman, R. P., Matthews, G. A., & Hall, F. R. (2007). Ground-based application equipment. In L. A. Lacey & H. K. Kaya (Eds.), Field Manual of Techniques in Invertebrate Pathology: Application and Evaluation of Pathogens for Control of Insects and other Invertebrate Pests (pp. 73–98). Springer Netherlands.

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 Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, December 12). The Dark Side Of Research – When Chasing Prestige Becomes The Prize. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/dark-side-research-when-chasing-prestige-becomes-prize/

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. (2013). Federal Retirement Processing: OPM Is Pursuing Incremental Information Technology Improvements after Canceling a Modernization Plagued by Management Weaknesses (GAO-13-580T). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Thomas-Whitman, D. (2012). Treading water: Civic engagement efforts in a time of budget crisis at a public university [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Saslow, L. (2006, September 2). Route 110 Plan Worries Some Merchants. New York Times, LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mabberley, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Bezanilla & Perozo, 2002; Mabberley, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Bezanilla & Perozo, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Elde et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	China Journal of Accounting Studies
Abbreviation	China J. Acc. Stud.
ISSN (print)	2169-7221
ISSN (online)	2169-7213
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