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

Goulson Dave. Ecology: Pesticides linked to bird declines. Nature 2014;511(7509):295–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Levitt Steven D., List John A. Economics. Homo economicus evolves. Science 2008;319(5865):909–10.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lind Gustav, Linsmeier Cecilia Eriksson, Schouenborg Jens. The density difference between tissue and neural probes is a key factor for glial scarring. Sci Rep 2013;3:2942.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Watson Fiona L., Püttmann-Holgado Roland, Thomas Franziska, Lamar David L., Hughes Michael, Kondo Masahiro, et al. Extensive diversity of Ig-superfamily proteins in the immune system of insects. Science 2005;309(5742):1874–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henry-Labordère Arnaud. Virtual Roaming Systems for GSM, GPRS and UMTS. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2009.

An edited book

Itterheim Steffen. Learn cocos2D Game Development with iOS 5. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Xing Yuan, Qin Shengfeng, Wang Taiyong. Study of Subdivision Surface Modelling for Spiral Bevel Gear Manufacturing. In: Huang George Q., Mak K. L., Maropoulos Paul G., editors. Proceedings of the 6th CIRP-Sponsored International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 57–66.

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

Andrew Danielle. 11 Fitness Myths That Are Doing More Harm Than Good. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/11-fitness-myths-that-are-doing-more-harm-than-good/. Accessed October 30, 2018, 2017.

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. College Work-Study Program at the Bay College of Maryland. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Archibald Gale A. Regionalizing competitive talent: An exploratory study of the role of human capital management in the context of economic integration and labor mobility. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2008.

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

Kishkovsky Sophia. Submarine’s Namesake City Hurts As Minute After Minute Ticks Away. New York Times 2000:A8.

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