How to format your references using the Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. 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

Lemaire, Patrick. 2006. Developmental biology. How many ways to make a chordate? Science (New York, N.Y.) 312: 1145–1146.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kelley, Laura A., and John A. Endler. 2012. Illusions promote mating success in great bowerbirds. Science (New York, N.Y.) 335: 335–338.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tuckerman, Mark E., Dominik Marx, and Michele Parrinello. 2002. The nature and transport mechanism of hydrated hydroxide ions in aqueous solution. Nature 417: 925–929.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Sloan, G. C., M. Matsuura, A. A. Zijlstra, E. Lagadec, M. A. T. Groenewegen, P. R. Wood, C. Szyszka, J. Bernard-Salas, and J. Th van Loon. 2009. Dust formation in a galaxy with primitive abundances. Science (New York, N.Y.) 323: 353–355.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Samuels, Shirley. 2011. Reading the American Novel 1780-1865. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

De Salles, Antonio A. F., Alessandra Gorgulho, Nzhde Agazaryan, Ben Slotman, Michael Selch, Aaaron J. Burwick, and Raymond Schulz, ed. 2011. Shaped Beam Radiosurgery: State of the Art. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Vu, Quang Hieu, Mihai Lupu, and Beng Chin Ooi. 2010. Load Balancing and Replication. In Peer-to-Peer Computing: Principles and Applications, ed. Mihai Lupu and Beng Chin Ooi, 127–156. 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 Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Blog post

Hamilton, Kristy. 2017. Do You Really Want To Know What’s Lurking In Your Genome? IFLScience. IFLScience. March 3.

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. 2014. Secure Flight: TSA Should Take Additional Steps to Determine Program Effectiveness. GAO-14-531. 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

Weir, Brad. 2010. The transfer of momentum from waves to currents due to wave breaking. Doctoral dissertation, Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona.

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

Walsh, Mary Williams. 2017. Even as Puerto Rico Was Buckling Under Debt, Investors Hungered for More. New York Times, May 6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lemaire 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Lemaire 2006; Kelley and Endler 2012).

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

Two authors: (Kelley and Endler 2012)
Three or more authors: (Sloan et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences
ISSN (print)	1674-0750
ISSN (online)	2198-2600
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