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

Youngman, Randall E. 2014. Amorphous Materials. Glimpsing glass structure under pressure. Science (New York, N.Y.) 345: 998–999.

A journal article with 2 authors

Downer, Mike, and Rafal Zgadzaj. 2014. Accelerator physics: Surf’s up at SLAC. Nature 515: 40–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

London, Alex John, Jonathan Kimmelman, and Benjamin Carlisle. 2012. Research ethics. Rethinking research ethics: the case of postmarketing trials. Science (New York, N.Y.) 336: 544–545.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Stagg, Scott M., Cemal Gürkan, Douglas M. Fowler, Paul LaPointe, Ted R. Foss, Clinton S. Potter, Bridget Carragher, and William E. Balch. 2006. Structure of the Sec13/31 COPII coat cage. Nature 439: 234–238.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walker, Carl, and Ben Fincham. 2011. Work and the Mental Health Crisis in Britain. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Walsh, Brendan, ed. 2016. Essays in the History of Irish Education. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Wagenhofer, Alfred. 2007. Economic Consequences of Internet Financial Reporting. In New Dimensions of Business Reporting and XBRL, ed. Carsten Felden and Maciej Piechocki, 99–123. Wiesbaden: DUV.

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. Extremely Large Telescopes Will Add More Firepower To Search The Cosmos. IFLScience. IFLScience. February 12.

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. 1976. Study of Certain Management Practices at the National Institute of Education. HRD-77-1. 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

Zoino, Jayson Jon. 2017. Field Methods, Sampling Strategies, Historical Documents, and Data Redundancy: A Study of Historic Tenant Farmsteads in Leflore County, Mississippi. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi 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, John. 2017. At the Emmys, a Night of Politics and Trump. New York Times, September 17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Youngman 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Downer and Zgadzaj 2014; Youngman 2014).

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

Two authors: (Downer and Zgadzaj 2014)
Three or more authors: (Stagg et al. 2006)

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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