How to format your references using the Journal of Chinese Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Chinese Management. 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

Sun L. Inorganic chemistry. A closer mimic of the oxygen evolution complex of photosystem II. Science. 2015 May 8;348(6235):635–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gregg JM, Kumar A. Applied physics: trawling for complements. Nature. 2014 Jun 26;510(7506):481–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Engler HS, Spencer KC, Gilbert LE. Preventing cyanide release from leaves. Nature. 2000 Jul 13;406(6792):144–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Keung AJ, Dong M, Schaffer DV, Kumar S. Pan-neuronal maturation but not neuronal subtype differentiation of adult neural stem cells is mechanosensitive. Sci. Rep. 2013;3:1817.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ushakov I. Probabilistic Reliability Models. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Gutkin B, Ahmed SH, editors. Computational Neuroscience of Drug Addiction. 1st ed. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Srivastava S, Goyal P. Hyperaccumulation: A Phytoremedial Approach. In: Goyal P, editor. Novel Biomaterials: Decontamination of Toxic Metals from Wastewater. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 33–42.

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 Management.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Supercomputer Network Employed To Shed Light On The Dark Universe [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/supercomputer-network-employed-to-shed-light-on-the-dark-universe/

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. SSA Data Communications Contracts With Paradyne Corporation Demonstrate the Need for Improved Management Controls. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1984 Jul. Report No.: IMTEC-84-15.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Campos-Doerfler L. The Role of Sgs1 and Exo1 in the Maintenance of Genome Stability [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2017.

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

Kelly M. Clinton Names Team to Probe U.S. Agencies. New York Times. 1992 Nov 26;A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sun 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gregg and Kumar 2014; Sun 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gregg and Kumar 2014)
Three or more authors: (Keung et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Chinese Management
Abbreviation	J. Chin. Manag.
ISSN (online)	2195-9897
Scope