How to format your references using the Chinese Political Science Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese Political Science Review. 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

Harris, Nicola. 2015. Immunology: Chronic effects of acute infections. Nature 526: 509–510.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shapiro, Lucy, and Richard Losick. 2013. Retrospective. Francois Jacob (1920-2013). Science (New York, N.Y.) 340: 939.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whittington, Alan G., Anne M. Hofmeister, and Peter I. Nabelek. 2009. Temperature-dependent thermal diffusivity of the Earth’s crust and implications for magmatism. Nature 458: 319–321.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Javadi, Arman, Mehdi Habibi, Fereshte Samadi Taheri, Sébastien Moulinet, and Daniel Bonn. 2013. Effect of wetting on capillary pumping in microchannels. Scientific reports 3: 1412.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, Shu-Lin. 2012. Raman Spectroscopy and its Application in Nanostructures. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Wittmer, Andreas, Thomas Bieger, and Roland Müller, ed. 2011. Aviation Systems: Management of the Integrated Aviation Value Chain. Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Brillantes, Alex B., Jr., and Jose O. Tiu Sonco II. 2007. Harmonizing Objectives and Outcomes at the National and Sub-National Levels Through Citizen Engagement and Capacity Building (With Special References to the Philippines). In Fiscal Equalization: Challenges in the Design of Intergovernmental Transfers, ed. Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Bob Searle, 95–128. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Political Science Review.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. FDA Approves New Drug To Treat Advanced Breast Cancer. IFLScience. IFLScience. February 9.

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. 1988. IRS’ ADP Budget: Funds for a Suspended Payroll Project Need Further Justification. IMTEC-88-44. 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

Legaspi, Jose. 2010. Accelerated supported employment program: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Novick, Susan M. 2015. When the Brew Is as Crucial as the Bean. New York Times, March 29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harris 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Shapiro and Losick 2013; Harris 2015).

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

Two authors: (Shapiro and Losick 2013)
Three or more authors: (Javadi et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chinese Political Science Review
Abbreviation	Chin. Polit. Sci. Rev.
ISSN (print)	2365-4244
ISSN (online)	2365-4252
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