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

Bornens, Michel. 2012. The centrosome in cells and organisms. Science (New York, N.Y.) 335: 422–426.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ischenko, Alexander A., and Murat K. Saparbaev. 2002. Alternative nucleotide incision repair pathway for oxidative DNA damage. Nature 415: 183–187.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yashiro, Kenta, Hidetaka Shiratori, and Hiroshi Hamada. 2007. Haemodynamics determined by a genetic programme govern asymmetric development of the aortic arch. Nature 450: 285–288.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Modis, Yorgo, Steven Ogata, David Clements, and Stephen C. Harrison. 2004. Structure of the dengue virus envelope protein after membrane fusion. Nature 427: 313–319.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mazer, Arthur. 2011. Shifting the Earth. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ancona, Vincenzo, and Elisabetta Strickland, ed. 2014. Trends in Contemporary Mathematics. Vol. 8. Springer INdAM Series. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Amaldi, Edoardo. 2012. Fritz’s First Marriage. In The Adventurous Life of Friedrich Georg Houtermans, Physicist (1903-1966), ed. Saverio Braccini, Antonio Ereditato, and Paola Scampoli, 23–25. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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. Regrowing Limbs: Fossils Reveal Ancient Secrets Of Salamander Ancestors. IFLScience. IFLScience. October 27.

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. 1989. Special Education: Congressional Action Needed to Improve Chapter 1 Handicapped Program. HRD-89-54. 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

Alexandre, Kelly Marie. 2009. Identifying mechanisms regulating Wnt signaling during postembryonic development. Doctoral dissertation, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Feuer, Alan, and William K. Rashbaum. 2017. Family Past Heightens Enigma of Judge’s Death. New York Times, April 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bornens 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Ischenko and Saparbaev 2002; Bornens 2012).

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

Two authors: (Ischenko and Saparbaev 2002)
Three or more authors: (Modis et al. 2004)

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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