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

Silverberg, R. (2000). Pluto story. Nature, 403(6768), 367.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pevzner, P., & Shamir, R. (2009). Computing has changed biology--biology education must catch up. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5940), 541–542.

A journal article with 3 authors

He, Y., Michaels, S. D., & Amasino, R. M. (2003). Regulation of flowering time by histone acetylation in Arabidopsis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5651), 1751–1754.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gan, X., Stegle, O., Behr, J., Steffen, J. G., Drewe, P., Hildebrand, K. L., Lyngsoe, R., Schultheiss, S. J., Osborne, E. J., Sreedharan, V. T., Kahles, A., Bohnert, R., Jean, G., Derwent, P., Kersey, P., Belfield, E. J., Harberd, N. P., Kemen, E., Toomajian, C., … Mott, R. (2011). Multiple reference genomes and transcriptomes for Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature, 477(7365), 419–423.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nasr, V. G., & DiNardo, J. A. (2017). The Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Johnson, D. E. (Ed.). (2013). Cell Death Signaling in Cancer Biology and Treatment. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Angosto, C., & López-Pellicer, M. (2014). Compactness and Distances to Spaces of Continuous Functions and Fréchet Spaces. In J. C. Ferrando & M. López-Pellicer (Eds.), Descriptive Topology and Functional Analysis: In Honour of Jerzy Kakol’s 60th Birthday (pp. 75–93). 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

Fang, J. (2015, July 24). Sea Level Rise Could Drown Eggs At Turtle Nesting Sites. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sea-level-rise-could-drown-eggs-turtle-nesting-sites/

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. (2004). Air Traffic Control: System Management Capabilities Improved, but More Can Be Done to Institutionalize Improvements (GAO-04-901). 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

Roberts, J. E. (2010). Process evaluation of the Instant Word Notebook [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood University.

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

Belson, K. (2014, August 11). Coaxing Fire and Police Staffs in Arizona to Cut Own Pensions. New York Times, A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Silverberg, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Pevzner & Shamir, 2009; Silverberg, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Pevzner & Shamir, 2009)
Three authors: (He et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Gan et al., 2011)

About the journal

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

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