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

Godfray, H. C. J., Jr. 2007. “Linnaeus in the Information Age.” Nature 446 (7133): 259–260.

A journal article with 2 authors

Losick, Richard, and Claude Desplan. 2008. “Stochasticity and Cell Fate.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 320 (5872): 65–68.

A journal article with 3 authors

Opher, M., E. C. Stone, and T. I. Gombosi. 2007. “The Orientation of the Local Interstellar Magnetic Field.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 316 (5826): 875–878.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wolan, Dennis W., Julie A. Zorn, Daniel C. Gray, and James A. Wells. 2009. “Small-Molecule Activators of a Proenzyme.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 326 (5954): 853–858.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ippolito, Louis J., Jr. 2017. Satellite Communications Systems Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Cohn, Anthony G., and David M. Mark, eds. 2005. Spatial Information Theory: International Conference, COSIT 2005, Ellicottville, NY, USA, September 14-18, 2005. Proceedings. Vol. 3693. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Maggiorini, Marco, Peter Bärtsch, and Erik R. Swenson. 2014. “Pulmonary Circulation.” In High Altitude: Human Adaptation to Hypoxia, edited by Erik R. Swenson and Peter Bärtsch, 85–102. New York, NY: 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 Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Japan Restarts First Nuclear Power Plant Since Fukushima Disaster.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/japan-restarts-first-nuclear-power-plant-fukushima-disaster/.

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. 2012. Emergency Communications: Various Challenges Likely to Slow Implementation of a Public Safety Broadband Network. GAO-12-343. 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

Brown, Eric Ryan. 2011. “Comparison of Instructional Techniques of High School Economics Teachers in Georgia and Shenzhen, China.” 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

Walsh, Mary Williams. 2011. “A.I.G. Tells Shareholders Stock Sale Still Planned.” New York Times, May 12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Godfray 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Godfray 2007; Losick and Desplan 2008).

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

Two authors: (Losick and Desplan 2008)
Three authors: (Opher, Stone, and Gombosi 2007)
4 or more authors: (Wolan et al. 2009)

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