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

Tsai JW. 2015. The M.D.-Ph.D. double agent. Science. 350(6266):1434.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krushelnick K, Cowley S. 2005. Physics. Reduced turbulence and new opportunities for fusion. Science. 309(5740):1502–1503.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tasker SZ, Standley EA, Jamison TF. 2014. Recent advances in homogeneous nickel catalysis. Nature. 509(7500):299–309.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Frearson JA, Brand S, McElroy SP, Cleghorn LAT, Smid O, Stojanovski L, Price HP, Guther MLS, Torrie LS, Robinson DA, et al. 2010. N-myristoyltransferase inhibitors as new leads to treat sleeping sickness. Nature. 464(7289):728–732.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee. 2007. Positive Displacement Pumps. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Brumme R, Khanna PK, editors. 2009. Functioning and Management of European Beech Ecosystems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang Y, Guo D. 2015. Over-Determined and Under-Determined Systems of Time-Varying Linear Equations. In: Guo D, editor. Zhang Functions and Various Models. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 61–73.

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

Andrew D. 2017. A Nevada Woman Died From A Bug That Resisted 26 Antibiotics — Here’s Why It’s So Hard To Develop New Ones. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/a-nevada-woman-died-from-a-bug-that-resisted-26-antibiotics-heres-why-its-so-hard-to-develop-new-ones/

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. 2016. DOD Major Automated Information Systems: Improvements Can Be Made in Reporting Critical Changes and Clarifying Leadership Responsibility. 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

Redcay JD. 2014. Kindergarten students’ reading performance and perceptions of Ludus Reading: A mixed-method study [Doctoral dissertation]. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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 M. 2010. Old Is Good, Cheaper Is Better. New York Times.:E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tsai 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Krushelnick and Cowley 2005; Tsai 2015).

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

Two authors: (Krushelnick and Cowley 2005)
Three or more authors: (Frearson et al. 2010)

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