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

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

Koen D (2005) Nuts and bolts. Online applications. Nature 433:90

A journal article with 2 authors

Cande SC, Stegman DR (2011) Indian and African plate motions driven by the push force of the Réunion plume head. Nature 475:47–52

A journal article with 3 authors

Nakagome S, Mano S, Hasegawa M (2013) Comment on “Nuclear genomic sequences reveal that polar bears are an old and distinct bear lineage.” Science 339:1522

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tranquada JM, Woo H, Perring TG, et al (2004) Quantum magnetic excitations from stripes in copper oxide superconductors. Nature 429:534–538

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Demand NH (2011) The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Agosti M, Borbinha J, Kapidakis S, et al (2009) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 13th European Conference, ECDL 2009, Corfu, Greece, September 27 - October 2, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Medina A (2016) Spirituality and Publicity in Barcelona, 1929: Performing Citizenship between Tradition and Avant-Garde. In: Cordoba A, García-Donoso D (eds) The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain: Beyond the Secular City. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, pp 61–78

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 Studies.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Aurora Borealis Illuminates the Skies. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/aurora-borealis-illuminates-skies-around-world/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Noteworthy Improvements in Readiness But Vulnerabilities Remain. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rich JB (2009) Guinevere takes her seat at the Round Table—or does she? Moving a primary Western myth forward. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Gustines GG (2016) Seeing Him in the Funny Papers. New York Times D7

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 Studies
Abbreviation	J. Chin. Stud.
ISSN (online)	2199-868X
Scope