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

Bardeen, C. (2011). Physics. Exciton quenching and migration in single conjugated polymers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6017), 544–545.

A journal article with 2 authors

Allen, M. R., & Ingram, W. J. (2002). Constraints on future changes in climate and the hydrologic cycle. Nature, 419(6903), 224–232.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kelley, A. M., Michalet, X., & Weiss, S. (2001). Chemical physics. Single-molecule spectroscopy comes of age. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5522), 1671–1672.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Seki, A., Coppinger, J. A., Jang, C.-Y., Yates, J. R., & Fang, G. (2008). Bora and the kinase Aurora a cooperatively activate the kinase Plk1 and control mitotic entry. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5883), 1655–1658.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kenny, T. (2014). The Nuts and Bolts of Implantable Device Therapy Pacemakers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Wong, W. E., & Zhu, T. (Eds.). (2014). Computer Engineering and Networking: Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Computer Engineering and Network (CENet2013) (Vol. 277). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Sakio, H., Kubo, M., Shimano, K., & Ohno, K. (2008). Coexistence mechanisms of three riparian species in the upper basin with respect to their life histories, ecophysiology, and disturbance regimes. In H. Sakio & T. Tamura (Eds.), Ecology of Riparian Forests in Japan: Disturbance, Life History, and Regeneration (pp. 75–90). Springer Japan.

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

Hale, T. (2017, April 4). Shrimp Proves It’s Hardcore By Taking Down Dragonfish And Gets A Surprise Bonus. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/shrimp-proves-its-hardcore-by-taking-down-dragonfish-and-gets-a-surprise-bonus/

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. (2014). Consumers’ Location Data: Companies Take Steps to Protect Privacy, but Practices Are Inconsistent, and Risks May Not be Clear to Consumers (GAO-14-649T). 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

Bakirci, A. (2010). Proteomic analysis of hepatocyte proteins in response to in vivo iron overload [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

Crair, B. (2016, August 16). Where Mark Twain Found Inspiration. New York Times, TR9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bardeen, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Allen & Ingram, 2002; Bardeen, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Allen & Ingram, 2002)
Three authors: (Kelley et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Seki et al., 2008)

About the journal

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