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

Haggard, P. (2009). Neuroscience. The sources of human volition. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5928), 731–733.

A journal article with 2 authors

McMichael, A., & Klenerman, P. (2002). HIV/AIDS. HLA leaves its footprints on HIV. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5572), 1410–1411.

A journal article with 3 authors

Priola, S. A., Chesebro, B., & Caughey, B. (2003). Biomedicine. A view from the top--prion diseases from 10,000 feet. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5621), 917–919.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kraft, M. L., Weber, P. K., Longo, M. L., Hutcheon, I. D., & Boxer, S. G. (2006). Phase separation of lipid membranes analyzed with high-resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5795), 1948–1951.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Langley-Evans, S. (2015). Nutrition, health and disease. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Johann, A., Kruse, H.-P., Rupp, F., & Schmitz, S. (Eds.). (2013). Recent Trends in Dynamical Systems: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Jürgen Scheurle (Vol. 35). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schier, F., & Turial, S. (2013). Upper Abdomen. In S. Turial (Ed.), Laparoscopy in Children (pp. 45–63). Springer.

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. (2015, September 26). Regional Variations In Microbes Influence A Wine’s Flavor. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/regional-variations-microbes-influence-wines-flavor/

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). Aviation Insurance: Federal Insurance Program Needs Improvements to Ensure Success (RCED-94-151). 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

Stachowiak, D. (2011). How executive coaches use the results of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to develop their coachees [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine University.

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

Williams, J. (2017, September 3). A Love of Science Fiction Collides With a Classic. New York Times, C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Haggard, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Haggard, 2009; McMichael & Klenerman, 2002).

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

Two authors: (McMichael & Klenerman, 2002)
Three authors: (Priola et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Kraft et al., 2006)

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

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