How to format your references using the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies. 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	Download the output style file
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

Stone, R. 2000. “EASTERN EUROPE: Help Needed to Rebuild Science in Yugoslavia.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 290 (5492): 690–695.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maloy, Kevin J., and Fiona Powrie. 2011. “Intestinal Homeostasis and Its Breakdown in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.” Nature 474 (7351): 298–306.

A journal article with 3 authors

Healy, Laura L., James G. Cronin, and I. Martin Sheldon. 2014. “Endometrial Cells Sense and React to Tissue Damage during Infection of the Bovine Endometrium via Interleukin 1.” Scientific Reports 4 (November): 7060.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Radajewski, S., P. Ineson, N. R. Parekh, and J. C. Murrell. 2000. “Stable-Isotope Probing as a Tool in Microbial Ecology.” Nature 403 (6770): 646–649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pesavento, Larry, and Shane Smoleny. 2015. A Trader’s Guide to Financial Astrology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pino, Robinson E., Alexander Kott, and Michael Shevenell, eds. 2014. Cybersecurity Systems for Human Cognition Augmentation. Vol. 61. Advances in Information Security. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Matsumura, Naohiro. 2008. “Communication Gap Management Towards a Fertile Community.” In The Grammar of Technology Development, edited by Hiroe Tsubaki, Shu Yamada, and Ken Nishina, 61–70. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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 Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Passing On Taste: How Your Mum’s Diet Affects What You Eat.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/passing-taste-how-your-mum-s-diet-affects-what-you-eat/.

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. 1994. [Request for Decision on EEOC Employee’s Claim for Transportation Expenses]. B-256635. 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

Myers, Katherine E. 2012. “The First Determination of the Proton’s Weak Charge Through Parity-Violating Asymmetry Measurements in Elastic e + p and e + Al Scattering.” Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

STEVEN LEE MYERS; C.J. Chivers contributed reporting from Beslan for this article, and Sophia Kishkovsky From Melikhovo. 2004. “PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA FACES FULL ‘WAR’ TO DIVIDE NATION.” New York Times, September 5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stone 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Stone 2000; Maloy and Powrie 2011).

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

Two authors: (Maloy and Powrie 2011)
Three authors: (Healy, Cronin, and Sheldon 2014)
4 or more authors: (Radajewski et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies
ISSN (print)	1476-5284
ISSN (online)	1476-5292
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance