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

Ferry, David K. 2012. “Applied Physics. Ohm’s Law in a Quantum World.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 335 (6064): 45–46.

A journal article with 2 authors

Galloway, Laura F., and Julie R. Etterson. 2007. “Transgenerational Plasticity Is Adaptive in the Wild.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 318 (5853): 1134–1136.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schwarz, Günter, Ralf R. Mendel, and Markus W. Ribbe. 2009. “Molybdenum Cofactors, Enzymes and Pathways.” Nature 460 (7257): 839–847.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Blomqvist, Donald, Malte Andersson, Clemens Küpper, Innes C. Cuthill, János Kis, Richard B. Lanctot, Brett K. Sandercock, Tamás Székely, Johan Wallander, and Bart Kempenaers. 2002. “Genetic Similarity between Mates and Extra-Pair Parentage in Three Species of Shorebirds.” Nature 419 (6907): 613–615.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pérez, André. 2013. Mobile Networks Architecture. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Patalano, Rosario, and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. 2016. Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government. Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Darchini-Maragheh, Emadodin, Peter G. Blain, and Mahdi Balali-Mood. 2015. “Delayed Complications and Long-Term Effects of SM Poisonings: Experience of Iran-Iraq War.” In Basic and Clinical Toxicology of Mustard Compounds, edited by Mahdi Balali-Mood and Mohammad Abdollahi, 101–134. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Carpineti, Chris. 2017. “Video: Flat-Earthers Present Their ‘Evidence’ For Why The Earth Is Flat.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. Students Receiving Federal Aid Are Not Making Satisfactory Academic Progress: Tougher Standards Are Needed. HRD-82-15. 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

Jaramillo, Melynda Ann. 2017. “Morphology of Ferromagnetic Thin Films on Nanosphere Templates.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

(nyt), Sophia Kishkovsky. 2005. “World Briefing | Europe: Russia: U.S. Rejects Allegations Of Spying.” New York Times, May 14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ferry 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Ferry 2012; Galloway and Etterson 2007).

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

Two authors: (Galloway and Etterson 2007)
Three authors: (Schwarz, Mendel, and Ribbe 2009)
4 or more authors: (Blomqvist et al. 2002)

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