How to format your references using the Chinese Journal of Aeronautics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese Journal of Aeronautics (CJA). 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	Download the output style file
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

Bromirski Peter D. Geophysics. Earth vibrations. Science 2009;324(5930):1026–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang Zong-Feng, Zhou Jun-Hong. Can we identify source lithology of basalt? Sci Rep 2013;3:1856.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mabe Satoru, Nagamune Teruyuki, Kawahara Masahiro. Detecting protein-protein interactions based on kinase-mediated growth induction of mammalian cells. Sci Rep 2014;4:6127.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chekeni Faraaz B., Elliott Michael R., Sandilos Joanna K., Walk Scott F., Kinchen Jason M., Lazarowski Eduardo R., et al. Pannexin 1 channels mediate “find-me” signal release and membrane permeability during apoptosis. Nature 2010;467(7317):863–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Todinov M. T. Reliability and Risk Models. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Quarteroni Alfio. Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Octave: Second Edition. vol. 2. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Veronesi Giulia. Thoracic Surgery. In: Spinoglio Giuseppe, editor. Robotic Surgery: Current Applications and New Trends. Milano: Springer; 2015. p. 29–39.

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 Chinese Journal of Aeronautics.

Blog post

Andrews Robin. Cats Murder More Than 80 Different Species Of American Birds And Mammals. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cats-murder-80-different-species-american-birds-mammals/. Accessed October 30, 2018, 2016.

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. Education Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Decena Marie. What variables affect Peritoneal Dialysis growth?. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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

Billard Mary. Ride Home With It. New York Times 2010:E5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Chinese Journal of Aeronautics
ISSN (print)	1000-9361
Scope	Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering