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

Chong, Yidong. 2013. Optical devices: photonic insulators with a twist. Nature 496: 173–174.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alekseyenko, Artyom A., and Mitzi I. Kuroda. 2004. Molecular biology. Filling gaps in genome organization. Science (New York, N.Y.) 303: 1148–1149.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiao, Shangbin, Rui Li, and Muhong Chen. 2013. Detecting sedimentary cycles using autocorrelation of grain size. Scientific reports 3: 1653.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Abe, Ryoji, Hee-Jin Jeong, Dai Arakawa, Jinhua Dong, Hiroyuki Ohashi, Rena Kaigome, Fujio Saiki, Kyosuke Yamane, Hiroaki Takagi, and Hiroshi Ueda. 2014. Ultra Q-bodies: quench-based antibody probes that utilize dye-dye interactions with enhanced antigen-dependent fluorescence. Scientific reports 4: 4640.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adams, Nicholas. 2013. Eclipse of Grace. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Carpi, Federico, ed. 2016. Electromechanically Active Polymers: A Concise Reference. Polymers and Polymeric Composites: A Reference Series. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Trentz, Otmar. 2014. Polytrauma: Pathophysiology, Priorities, and Management. In General Trauma Care and Related Aspects: Trauma Surgery II, ed. Hans-Jörg Oestern, Otmar Trentz, and Selman Uranues, 69–76. 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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. A Teacher Uses Star Trek For Difficult Conversations On Race And Gender. IFLScience. IFLScience. August 10.

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. 1998. Airport Financing: Comparing Funding Sources With Planned Development. T-RCED-98-129. 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

Theisen, Teresa D. 2008. Improving the collaboration infrastructure of an online inter -institutional consortium. Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Crow, Kelly. 2002. Few Kind Words Are Heard for a Proposed Economic Zone. New York Times, September 8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chong 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Alekseyenko and Kuroda 2004; Chong 2013).

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

Two authors: (Alekseyenko and Kuroda 2004)
Three or more authors: (Abe et al. 2014)

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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