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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese Journal of Communication. 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

Smith, A. (2014). Cell biology: Potency unchained. Nature, 505(7485), 622–623.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nakar, E., & Piran, T. (2011). Detectable radio flares following gravitational waves from mergers of binary neutron stars. Nature, 478(7367), 82–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bloxham, J., Zatman, S., & Dumberry, M. (2002). The origin of geomagnetic jerks. Nature, 420(6911), 65–68.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Xiang, X., Qiao, L., Xiao, H. Y., Gao, F., Zu, X. T., Li, S., & Zhou, W. L. (2014). Effects of surface defects on two-dimensional electron gas at NdAlO3/SrTiO3 interface. Scientific Reports, 4, 5477.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kenny, T. (2014). The Nuts and Bolts of Implantable Device Therapy Pacemakers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Petsche, H.-J., Keßler, G., Kannenberg, L., & Liskowacka, J. (Eds.). (2009). Hermann Graßmann Roots and Traces: Autographs and Unknown Documents. Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

de Oliveira, H. B., & Paiva, A. (2016). On a One-Equation Turbulent Model with Feedbacks. In S. Pinelas, Z. Došlá, O. Došlý, & P. E. Kloeden (Eds.), Differential and Difference Equations with Applications: ICDDEA, Amadora, Portugal, May 2015, Selected Contributions (pp. 51–61). Springer International Publishing.

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 Communication.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 3). Rapid Growth Of The Cerebellum May Have Helped Shape Human Evolution. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/rapid-growth-cerebellum-may-have-helped-shape-human-evolution/

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. (1971). Review of Administration of Selected Aspects of the Student-Tutor Education Program by the National Endowment for the Humanities (B-158811). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Whidby, M. A. (2012). Citation handling: Processing citation texts in scientific documents [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Eligon, J. (2017, August 19). For Some in Charlottesville, Statue Dispute Distracts From City’s Deep Racial Split. New York Times, A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Nakar & Piran, 2011; Smith, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Nakar & Piran, 2011)
Three authors: (Bloxham et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Xiang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chinese Journal of Communication
Abbreviation	Chin. J. Commun.
ISSN (print)	1754-4750
ISSN (online)	1754-4769
Scope	Communication