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

Smaglik P. Sweet dreams. Nature. 2003 Jan 9;421(6919):193.

A journal article with 2 authors

Farmer ME, Baran PS. Organic chemistry: A cure for catalyst poisoning. Nature. 2015 Aug 13;524(7564):164–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Worobey M, Han G-Z, Rambaut A. A synchronized global sweep of the internal genes of modern avian influenza virus. Nature. 2014 Apr 10;508(7495):254–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nathan R, Katul GG, Horn HS, Thomas SM, Oren R, Avissar R, et al. Mechanisms of long-distance dispersal of seeds by wind. Nature. 2002 Jul 25;418(6896):409–13.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bernatz RA. Fourier Series and Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Weinstein HJ, Hudson MM, Link MP, editors. Pediatric Lymphomas. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Chuan T, Ling C. Research on Financial System Computing Simulation. In: Dai M, editor. Innovative Computing and Information: International Conference, ICCIC 2011, Wuhan, China, September 17-18, 2011. Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 29–35.

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

Andrew E. Hospital Patients Are More Likely To Die At Weekends But Seven-Day Rosters Are No Panacea [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hospital-patients-are-more-likely-die-weekends-seven-day-rosters-are-no-panacea/

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. SSI Disability Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 May. Report No.: HEHS-95-154R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Thom RC. Digital Martyrs and Shadowless Assailants: The Projective Shadow’s Emergence in Cyberspace [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2017.

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

Neuman W. A Push Against Coca Falls Short. New York Times. 2015 Jun 3;A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Farmer and Baran 2015; Smaglik 2003).

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

Two authors: (Farmer and Baran 2015)
Three or more authors: (Nathan et al. 2002)

About the journal

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