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

Smartt SJ (2015) Astrophysics: A twist in the tale of γ-ray bursts. Nature 523:164–166

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee J-H, Paull TT (2005) ATM activation by DNA double-strand breaks through the Mre11-Rad50-Nbs1 complex. Science 308:551–554

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoon S-J, Yi SK, Lee Y-W (2006) Explaining the color distributions of globular cluster systems in elliptical galaxies. Science 311:1129–1132

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Stevens CJ, Dise NB, Mountford JO, Gowing DJ (2004) Impact of nitrogen deposition on the species richness of grasslands. Science 303:1876–1879

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khanna VK (2005) Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor IGBT Theory and Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Le ND (2006) Statistical Analysis of Environmental Space-Time Processes. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Cambazard H, Mehta D, O’Sullivan B, Simonis H (2013) Constraint Programming Based Large Neighbourhood Search for Energy Minimisation in Data Centres. In: Altmann J, Vanmechelen K, Rana OF (eds) Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services: 10th International Conference, GECON 2013, Zaragoza, Spain, September 18-20, 2013. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 44–59

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

Fang J (2015) Brazilian Stingless Bees Farm Fungus To Feed Their Offspring. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/brazilian-stingless-bees-are-fungus-farmers/. 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 (1981) Review of Pension and Fringe Benefits for Contractors’ Employees at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. 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

Eldridge Z (2017) The Empowerment of a Forgotten Population. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Gordon MR (2017) Pentagon Inquiry Blames ISIS for Civilian Deaths in U.S. Strike on Mosul. New York Times A8

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