How to format your references using the China Journal of Economic Research citation style

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

Blow N. Tissue preparation: Tissue issues. Nature. 2007 Aug 23;448(7156):959–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koren I, Kimchi A. Cell biology. Promoting tumorigenesis by suppressing autophagy. Science. 2012 Nov 16;338(6109):889–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thisse B, Wright CV, Thisse C. Activin- and Nodal-related factors control antero-posterior patterning of the zebrafish embryo. Nature. 2000 Jan 27;403(6768):425–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kawabuchi M, Satomi Y, Takao T, Shimonishi Y, Nada S, Nagai K, et al. Transmembrane phosphoprotein Cbp regulates the activities of Src-family tyrosine kinases. Nature. 2000 Apr 27;404(6781):999–1003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shelby AM, McKune CM. Small Animal Anesthesia Techniques. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Jain LC, Palade V, Srinivasan D, editors. Advances in Evolutionary Computing for System Design. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Lo C-W, Lin C-W, Chen Y-C, Yu J-Y. On Peer Selection and Protection for Reliable Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming. In: Muneesawang P, Wu F, Kumazawa I, Roeksabutr A, Liao M, Tang X, editors. Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2009: 10th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Bangkok, Thailand, December 15-18, 2009 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 65–76.

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 Economic Research.

Blog post

Hale T. Another Dolphin Killed By Morons Dragging It From Sea To Take Photographs [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/another-dolphin-killed-by-morons-dragging-it-from-sea-to-take-photographs/

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. Commercial Aviation: Structural Costs Continue to Challenge Legacy Airlines’ Financial Performance. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Jul. Report No.: GAO-05-834T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Valdez K. Taking a closer look at the mental health services act of 2004: A policy analysis [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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

Apuzzo M, Schmidt MS. White House Tries Civility With Mueller. New York Times. 2017 Oct 7;A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blow 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Blow 2007; Koren and Kimchi 2012).

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

Two authors: (Koren and Kimchi 2012)
Three or more authors: (Kawabuchi et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	China Journal of Economic Research
ISSN (online)	2199-4722
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