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

Scharfman HE. Neuroscience. Metabolic control of epilepsy. Science. 2015 Mar 20;347(6228):1312–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Arnqvist G, Rowe L. Antagonistic coevolution between the sexes in a group of insects. Nature. 2002 Feb 14;415(6873):787–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prescher JA, Dube DH, Bertozzi CR. Chemical remodelling of cell surfaces in living animals. Nature. 2004 Aug 19;430(7002):873–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wei P, Zhang J, Egan-Hafley M, Liang S, Moore DD. The nuclear receptor CAR mediates specific xenobiotic induction of drug metabolism. Nature. 2000 Oct 19;407(6806):920–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooper N, Forrest K, Cramp P. Essential Guide to Generic Skills. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Peacock RD, Kuligowski ED, Averill JD, editors. Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Curran JM, Rosen DE. Reconceptualizing Trust: An Evolutionary Process Model. In: Ford JB, Honeycutt ED Jr, editors. Proceedings of the 1998 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 26–26.

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. Colorful “Dragon Scales” On Pluto Perplex Scientists [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/pluto-perplexes-scientists/

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. Next Generation Air Transportation System: Challenges with Partner Agency and FAA Coordination Continue, and Efforts to Integrate Near-, Mid-, and Long-term Activities Are Ongoing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010 Apr. Report No.: GAO-10-649T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Blumenfeld DB. Policy Making and the U.S. Response to Global HIV/AIDS [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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

Gustines GG. Comics Sales Rise, in Paper and Pixels. New York Times. 2014 Jul 21;B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scharfman 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Arnqvist and Rowe 2002; Scharfman 2015).

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

Two authors: (Arnqvist and Rowe 2002)
Three or more authors: (Wei et al. 2000)

About the journal

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

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