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

Vastag, Brian. 2008. Assembly work. Nature 453: 422–423.

A journal article with 2 authors

Robinton, Daisy A., and George Q. Daley. 2012. The promise of induced pluripotent stem cells in research and therapy. Nature 481: 295–305.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rey, Patrice F., Nicolas Coltice, and Nicolas Flament. 2014. Spreading continents kick-started plate tectonics. Nature 513: 405–408.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kim, Hak Kyun, Gabriele Fuchs, Shengchun Wang, Wei Wei, Yue Zhang, Hyesuk Park, Biswajoy Roy-Chaudhuri, et al. 2017. A transfer-RNA-derived small RNA regulates ribosome biogenesis. Nature 552: 57–62.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fernandes, Rui. 2014. Local and Regional Flaps in Head & Neck Reconstruction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

D’Odorico, Paolo, and Amilcare Porporato, ed. 2006. Dryland Ecohydrology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

McGettigan, Timothy, and Earl Smith. 2016. Scientific Racism. In A Formula for Eradicating Racism: Debunking White Supremacy, ed. Earl Smith, 35–47. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan 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 Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2015. Archeologists Find Ancient Human Engravings From The End Of The Ice Age. IFLScience. IFLScience. November 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. 1981. Long-Range Planning Can Improve the Efficiency of Agricultural Research and Development. CED-81-141. 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

Barger, Brett. 2014. A Quantitative Study of Educational Poverty, School Location, and Student Achievement Measured by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). Doctoral dissertation, St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Lovett, Ian, Jack Healy, Michael S. Schmidt, and Julie Turkewitz. 2015. Friend Talked of Sleeper Cells Before Rampage. New York Times, December 12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vastag 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Vastag 2008; Robinton and Daley 2012).

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

Two authors: (Robinton and Daley 2012)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al. 2017)

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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