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

Goldston D. Climate of opportunity. Nature. 2007 Jan 18;445(7125):248.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hengel H, Koszinowski UH. Virology. A vaccine monkey wrench? Science. 2010 Apr 2;328(5974):51–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hornbach MJ, Saffer DM, Holbrook WS. Critically pressured free-gas reservoirs below gas-hydrate provinces. Nature. 2004 Jan 8;427(6970):142–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sun X, Zhang X, Schuck C, Tang HX. Nonlinear optical effects of ultrahigh-Q silicon photonic nanocavities immersed in superfluid helium. Sci. Rep. 2013;3:1436.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gaynor GH. Decisions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Antoniou G, Grobelnik M, Simperl E, Parsia B, Plexousakis D, Leenheer PD, et al., editors. The Semanic Web: Research and Applications: 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2011, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29 – June 2, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Iida K. Nanocomposite RE-Ba-Cu-O Bulk Superconductors. In: Mele P, Endo T, Arisawa S, Li C, Tsuchiya T, editors. Oxide Thin Films, Multilayers, and Nanocomposites. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 85–95.

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

Andrew E. The African Snakebite ‘Crisis’ Is Nothing New: We’ve Been Worried About Antivenom For Decades. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Acquisition of Automatic Data Processing Equipment at Federal Judicial Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Aug. Report No.: B-193861.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schick VR. Examining the vulva: The relationship between female genital aesthetic perceptions and gynecological care [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2010.

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

Wagner J. Harper’s Return Gives Nationals a Timely Boost. New York Times. 2017 Sep 27;B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Goldston 2007; Hengel and Koszinowski 2010).

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

Two authors: (Hengel and Koszinowski 2010)
Three or more authors: (Sun et al. 2013)

About the journal

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