How to format your references using the Science Foundation in China citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Science Foundation in China. 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

[1]

Vedral V 2008 Quantifying entanglement in macroscopic systems Nature 453 1004–7

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bergstrom C T and Kerr B 2015 Microbiology: Taking the bad with the good Nature 521 431–2

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Willis K J, Gillson L and Brncic T M 2004 Ecology. How “virgin” is virgin rainforest? Science 304 402–3

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Wilson R W, Millero F J, Taylor J R, Walsh P J, Christensen V, Jennings S and Grosell M 2009 Contribution of fish to the marine inorganic carbon cycle Science 323 359–62

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Masujima M 2005 Applied Mathematical Methods in Theoretical Physics (Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA)

An edited book

[1]

Bundschuh M 2008 The IT Measurement Compendium: Estimating and Benchmarking Success with Functional Size Measurement ed C Dekkers (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lynn R, Chen A, Locks S, Nath C and Kurfess T 2015 Intelligent and Accessible Data Flow Architectures for Manufacturing System Optimization Advances in Production Management Systems: Innovative Production Management Towards Sustainable Growth: IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2015, Tokyo, Japan, September 7-9, 2015, Proceedings, Part I IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology ed S Umeda, M Nakano, H Mizuyama, N Hibino, D Kiritsis and G von Cieminski (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 27–35

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 Science Foundation in China.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2015 Pharma Use Loophole To Hike Up The Price Of Drugs – So Why Doesn’t The NHS Stop It? IFLScience

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office 1991 Digests of Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. II, No. 6 (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

[1]

Lundahl Philpot E 2013 Social media adoption and use among information technology professionals and implications for leadership Doctoral dissertation (Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix)

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

[1]

Barry E 2013 Harsh Light Falls on Bolshoi After Acid Attack New York Times A1

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	Science Foundation in China
Abbreviation	Sci. Found. China
ISSN (print)	1005-0841
Scope