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

Rutter GA. Cell biology. Pancreas micromanages autophagy. Science. 2015 Feb 20;347(6224):826–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwartz MA, Chen CS. Cell biology. Deconstructing dimensionality. Science. 2013 Jan 25;339(6118):402–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grant AN, Brönnimann S, Haimberger L. Recent Arctic warming vertical structure contested. Nature. 2008 Sep 11;455(7210):E2-3; discussion E4-5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mora CV, Davison M, Wild JM, Walker MM. Magnetoreception and its trigeminal mediation in the homing pigeon. Nature. 2004 Nov 25;432(7016):508–11.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tms. Engineering Solutions for Sustainability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Hove LM, Lindau T, Hølmer P, editors. Distal Radius Fractures: Current Concepts. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Gourcy LL, Groening M, Aggarwal PK. Stable Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotopes in Precipitation. In: Aggarwal PK, Gat JR, Froehlich KFO, editors. Isotopes in the Water Cycle: Past, Present and Future of a Developing Science. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005. p. 39–51.

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. Biology’s Holy Grail: The Species And Its Controversial Recent History. 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. Research Evidence Concerning Bilingual Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Mar. Report No.: T-PEMD-87-3.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Clater MJ. Interposed between God and man: Agency in the Requiems of Berlioz and Fauré [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2009.

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

Crow K. An Enigmatic Golden Trophy Evokes a Saloon’s Good Times. New York Times. 2001 Jan 21;147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rutter 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Rutter 2015; Schwartz and Chen 2013).

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

Two authors: (Schwartz and Chen 2013)
Three or more authors: (Mora et al. 2004)

About the journal

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