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

O’Neill LAJ (2011) Plant science. Innate immunity in plants goes to the PUB. Science 332:1386–1387

A journal article with 2 authors

Sontheimer EJ, Carthew RW (2004) Molecular biology. Argonaute journeys into the heart of RISC. Science 305:1409–1410

A journal article with 3 authors

Biek R, Drummond AJ, Poss M (2006) A virus reveals population structure and recent demographic history of its carnivore host. Science 311:538–541

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kozlova E, Chernysh A, Moroz V, et al (2014) Transformation of membrane nanosurface of red blood cells under hemin action. Sci Rep 4:6033

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ginena K, Hamid A (2015) Foundations of Sharī‘ah Governance of Islamic Banks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Athanas P, Pnevmatikatos D, Sklavos N (2013) Embedded Systems Design with FPGAs. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Fischer T, Abrams J (2005) Studio Members. In: Abrams J (ed) Julie Snow Architects. Princeton Archit. Press, New York, NY, pp 16–17

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) Researcher who Faked HIV Vaccine Trial Data gets 4 Year Jail Sentence. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/4-year-jail-sentence-researcher-who-faked-hiv-vaccine-trial-data/. 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 (1997) Domestic Aviation: Barriers to Entry Continue to Limit Benefits of Airline Deregulation. 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

Crowley CJ (2010) A critical analysis of the CELF-4: The responsible clinician’s guide to the CELF-4. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University

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

Gorman J (2016) Size Matters: Secrets of the Orchid Mantis. New York Times D2

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