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

White TD. 2007. Obituary: F. Clark Howell (1925-2007). Nature. 447(7140):52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Göpfert MC, Robert D. 2001. Biomechanics. Turning the key on Drosophila audition. Nature. 411(6840):908.

A journal article with 3 authors

Furey ML, Pietrini P, Haxby JV. 2000. Cholinergic enhancement and increased selectivity of perceptual processing during working memory. Science. 290(5500):2315–2319.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Hinchcliffe EH, Miller FJ, Cham M, Khodjakov A, Sluder G. 2001. Requirement of a centrosomal activity for cell cycle progression through G1 into S phase. Science. 291(5508):1547–1550.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kassapoglou C. 2015. Modeling the Effect of Damage in Composite Structures. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Peters JF, Skowron A, editors. 2005. Transactions on Rough Sets III. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Everett LL, Fuzaylov G. 2008. Pediatric clinical challenges. In: Twersky RS, Philip BK, editors. Handbook of Ambulatory Anesthesia. New York, NY: Springer; p. 96–114.

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

Carpineti A. 2016. AI Learns Nobel-Winning Experiment In An Hour ... And Then Improves It. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/ai-learns-nobel-winning-experiment-hour-and-then-improves-it/

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. 1995. Resources, Community, and Economic Development Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. 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

Banerjee S. 2013. A mathematical model for the transition in firing patterns across puberty of a gonadotropin-releasing hormone neuron [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

Koblin J. 2017. ‘Walking Dead’ Producers Sue Its Network. New York Times.:B5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (White 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Göpfert and Robert 2001; White 2007).

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

Two authors: (Göpfert and Robert 2001)
Three or more authors: (Hinchcliffe et al. 2001)

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

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