How to format your references using the International Communication of Chinese Culture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Communication of Chinese Culture. 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

Munk, W. (2003). Ocean science. Ocean freshening, sea level rising. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5628), 2041–2043.

A journal article with 2 authors

Becker, A., & Grünewald, U. (2003). Disaster management. Flood risk in Central Europe. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5622), 1099.

A journal article with 3 authors

Levine, B., Mizushima, N., & Virgin, H. W. (2011). Autophagy in immunity and inflammation. Nature, 469(7330), 323–335.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Qi, Y., He, X., Wang, X.-J., Kohany, O., Jurka, J., & Hannon, G. J. (2006). Distinct catalytic and non-catalytic roles of ARGONAUTE4 in RNA-directed DNA methylation. Nature, 443(7114), 1008–1012.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Calloway, J. (2009). Becoming a Category of One. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Goethals, B., & Siebes, A. (Eds.). (2005). Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases: Third International Workshop, KDID 2004, Pisa, Italy, September 20, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers (Vol. 3377). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Pohlmann, M. (2013). The Migration of Elites in a Borderless World: Citizenship as an Incentive for Professionals and Managers? In M. Pohlmann, J. Yang, & J.-H. Lee (Eds.), Citizenship and Migration in the Era of Globalization: The Flow of Migrants and the Perception of Citizenship in Asia and Europe (pp. 59–70). 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 International Communication of Chinese Culture.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, October 3). Big-Headed Ants Grow Even Bigger When the Competition is Fierce. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/big-headed-ants-grow-even-bigger-when-competition-fierce/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1992). Tax Systems Modernization: Factors Critical to Success (No. T-IMTEC-92-10). 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

Chen, G. (2005). Essays On Using Weather Derivatives In Dairy Production (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Johnson, G. (2015, October 17). Gamblers, Scientists and the Hot Hand. New York Times, p. SR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Munk 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Becker and Grünewald 2003; Munk 2003).

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

Two authors: (Becker and Grünewald 2003)
Three or more authors: (Qi et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Communication of Chinese Culture
Abbreviation	Int. Commun. Chin. Cult.
ISSN (print)	2197-4233
ISSN (online)	2197-4241
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