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

Baldwin, Robert L. 2002. Making a network of hydrophobic clusters. Science (New York, N.Y.) 295: 1657–1658.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhuo, Shuangmu, and Ming Ni. 2014. Label-free and real-time imaging of dehydration-induced DNA conformational changes in cellular nucleus using second harmonic microscopy. Scientific reports 4: 7416.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reichman, O. J., Matthew B. Jones, and Mark P. Schildhauer. 2011. Challenges and opportunities of open data in ecology. Science (New York, N.Y.) 331: 703–705.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Chabot, Victor, Brian Kim, Brent Sloper, Costas Tzoganakis, and Aiping Yu. 2013. High yield production and purification of few layer graphene by gum arabic assisted physical sonication. Scientific reports 3: 1378.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. 2003. Guidelines for Investigating Chemical Process Incidents. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wang, Chao. 2006. Abstraction Refinement for Large Scale Model Checking. Edited by Gary D. Hachtel and Fabio Somenzi. Series on Integrated Circuits and Systems. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Bose, Christopher, and Rua Murray. 2014. Numerical Approximation of Conditionally Invariant Measures via Maximum Entropy. In Ergodic Theory, Open Dynamics, and Coherent Structures, ed. Wael Bahsoun, Christopher Bose, and Gary Froyland, 81–104. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. 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

Hamilton, Kristy. 2016. World’s First Three-Parent Baby Raises Questions About Long-Term Health Risks. IFLScience. IFLScience. September 28.

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. 2007. Social Security Numbers: Federal Actions Could Further Decrease Availability in Public Records, though Other Vulnerabilities Remain. GAO-07-752. 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

Hill, Landon. 2015. Unique forms of knowledge and curriculum in hip-hop pedagogy. 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

Vecsey, George. 2010. Bustling Booth Becomes Waypoint In Ashe’s Legacy. New York Times, September 5.

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

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