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

Bejan, A. (2014). Maxwell’s demons everywhere: evolving design as the arrow of time. Scientific reports, 4, 4017.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davidson, K., & Humphreys, R. M. (2012). The Great Eruption of η Carinae. Nature, 486(7403), E1; discussion E1-2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kempner, J., Perlis, C. S., & Merz, J. F. (2005). Ethics. Forbidden knowledge. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5711), 854.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Saghatelian, A., Yokobayashi, Y., Soltani, K., & Ghadiri, M. R. (2001). A chiroselective peptide replicator. Nature, 409(6822), 797–801.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Strachman, D., & Bookbinder, R. (2009). Fund of Funds Investing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rezakhanlou, F. (2008). Entropy Methods for the Boltzmann Equation: Lectures from a Special Semester at the Centre Émile Borel, Institut H. Poincaré, Paris, 2001. (C. Villani, F. Golse, & S. Olla, Eds.) (Vol. 1916). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Pryl, K., & Svitak, Z. (2006). URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE MODELLING. In P. Hlavinek, T. Kukharchyk, J. Marsalek, & I. Mahrikova (Eds.), Integrated Urban Water Resources Management (pp. 43–50). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Carpineti, A. (2016, July 25). Did Planet Nine Give The Solar System Its Tilt? IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2006). Next Generation Air Transportation System: Progress and Challenges Associated with the Transformation of the National Airspace System (No. GAO-07-25). 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

Abuzainab, N. (2013). Energy and security aspects of wireless networks: Performance and tradeoffs (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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, J. (2017, February 5). TV’s Answer to Dark Days. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bejan 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bejan 2014; Davidson and Humphreys 2012).

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

Two authors: (Davidson and Humphreys 2012)
Three or more authors: (Saghatelian et al. 2001)

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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