How to format your references using the Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment citation style

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

Penzias AA. 2010. A runaway success. Nature. 467(7317):S4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jasny BR, Zahn LM. 2011. Genome-sequencing anniversary. A celebration of the genome, part I. Science. 331(6017):546.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fry SN, Sayaman R, Dickinson MH. 2003. The aerodynamics of free-flight maneuvers in Drosophila. Science. 300(5618):495–498.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Hood L, Heath JR, Phelps ME, Lin B. 2004. Systems biology and new technologies enable predictive and preventative medicine. Science. 306(5696):640–643.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Samara T. 2015. ERP and Information Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bhushan B, editor. 2012. Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Picot A, Fiedler M. 2006. Digital Rights Management and Software Innovation. In: Kern E-M, Hegering H-G, Brügge B, editors. Managing Development and Application of Digital Technologies: Research Insights in the Munich Center for Digital Technology & Management (CDTM). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 71–86.

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 Population Resources and Environment.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2016. New Research On How Galaxies Spin Could Break One Of Our Best Dark Matter Theories. IFLScience.

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. 2005. Digital Broadcast Television Transition: Several Challenges Could Arise in Administering a Subsidy Program for DTV Equipment. Washington, DC: 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

Goodison SE. 2014. The undiscovered country: Homicide, dynamic change, and deterrence in Washington, D.C. Neighborhoods, 1998-2006 [Doctoral dissertation]. College Park, MD: 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

Hollander S. 2000. Missed Opportunities Are the Liberty’s Downfall. New York Times.:D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Penzias 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Penzias 2010; Jasny and Zahn 2011).

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

Two authors: (Jasny and Zahn 2011)
Three or more authors: (Hood et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment
Abbreviation	China Popul. Resour. Environ.
ISSN (print)	1004-2857
ISSN (online)	2325-4262
Scope	Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Toxicology Demography