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]

Camerer C F 2003 Psychology and economics. Strategizing in the brain Science 300 1673–5

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Beuther H and Schilke P 2004 Fragmentation in massive star formation Science 303 1167–9

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Xie X S, Yu J and Yang W Y 2006 Living cells as test tubes Science 312 228–30

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Li J, Yu T, Lin H-Q and You J Q 2014 Probing the non-locality of Majorana fermions via quantum correlations Sci. Rep. 4 4930

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Xing B, Vecitis C D and Senesi N 2016 Engineered Nanoparticles and the Environment: Biophysicochemical Processes and Toxicity (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Kiselevsky M V 2012 Malignant Effusions: Pleuritis, Ascites, Pericardites (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kindscher K 2016 The Biology and Ecology of Echinacea Species Echinacea: Herbal Medicine with a Wild History ed K Kindscher (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 47–54

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]

Hamilton K 2016 How Poor NHS Testing And Antibiotic Use Is Creating Super-Strength Cystitis 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 1998 FCC: Implementation of Competitive Bidding for Commercial Broadcast and Instructional Television Fixed Service Licenses (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]

Manzanares M E 2012 Effect of a preoperative multidisciplinary education program on weight management after bariatric surgery 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

[1]

Vecsey G 2010 Lovely in Twin Cities, With Usual Fall New York Times B13

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