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

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

Ahnert, Sebastian E. 2014. Generalised power graph compression reveals dominant relationship patterns in complex networks. Scientific reports 4: 4385.

A journal article with 2 authors

Birch, J. M., and M. H. Dickinson. 2001. Spanwise flow and the attachment of the leading-edge vortex on insect wings. Nature 412: 729–733.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bazin, Eric, Sylvain Glémin, and Nicolas Galtier. 2006. Population size does not influence mitochondrial genetic diversity in animals. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312: 570–572.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tanaka, Hideaki, Koji Kato, Eiki Yamashita, Tomoyuki Sumizawa, Yong Zhou, Min Yao, Kenji Iwasaki, Masato Yoshimura, and Tomitake Tsukihara. 2009. The structure of rat liver vault at 3.5 angstrom resolution. Science (New York, N.Y.) 323: 384–388.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cremona, Christian. 2013. Structural Performance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Akçali, Emel, ed. 2016. Neoliberal Governmentality and the Future of the State in the Middle East and North Africa. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

A chapter in an edited book

Huebner, Walter F., and W. David Barfield. 2014. Radiative Cross Sections. In Opacity, ed. W. David Barfield, 123–261. Astrophysics and Space Science Library. 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 Political Science.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2016. Is Middle America Due For A Catastrophic Earthquake? IFLScience. IFLScience. June 27.

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. 1980. NASA Performance Awards. B-196181. 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

Diorio, Cathy Ann. 2010. The silent scream of Medusa: Restoring, or re-storying, her voice. Doctoral dissertation, Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Brantley, Ben. 2016. A Maternal Giant, Spinning Tall Tales. New York Times, January 15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Chinese Political Science
Abbreviation	J. Chin. Polit. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1080-6954
ISSN (online)	1874-6357
Scope	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations