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

Chipman A. 2007. A commodity no more. Nature. 449(7159):131.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stanley S, Bloxham J. 2004. Convective-region geometry as the cause of Uranus’ and Neptune’s unusual magnetic fields. Nature. 428(6979):151–153.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lamas-Linares A, Howell JC, Bouwmeester D. 2001. Stimulated emission of polarization-entangled photons. Nature. 412(6850):887–890.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Kukushkin IV, Smet JH, von Klitzing K, Wegscheider W. 2002. Cyclotron resonance of composite fermions. Nature. 415(6870):409–412.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gramß T, Bornholdt S, Groß M, Mitchell M, Pellizzari T. 2005. Non-Standard Computation. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Vande Wouwer A. 2014. Simulation of ODE/PDE Models with MATLAB®, OCTAVE and SCILAB: Scientific and Engineering Applications. Saucez P, Vilas C, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Krishnamurthy KB, Morris GL, Sazgar M. 2016. Folic Acid Supplementation. In: Sazgar Mona, Harden CL, editors. Controversies in Caring for Women with Epilepsy: Sorting Through the Evidence. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 39–44.

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 E. 2015. How A Simple Vitamin B Prescription Could Help People With Alzheimer’s. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-simple-vitamin-b-prescription-could-help-people-alzheimer-s/

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. 1987. District of Columbia: Inmate Participation in Correctional Programs and Previous Lorton Confinements. 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

Roy Chowdhury T. 2012. Tracking Carbon Flow during Methane Oxidation into Methanotrophs Using 13C-PLFA Labeling in Pulsing Freshwater Wetlands [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

Gorman J. 2017. All Aboard an ‘Alien Starship.’ New York Times.:D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chipman 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Stanley and Bloxham 2004; Chipman 2007).

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

Two authors: (Stanley and Bloxham 2004)
Three or more authors: (Kukushkin et al. 2002)

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