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]

Padma T V 2005 Ayurveda Nature 436 486

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Holman M J and Murray N W 2005 The use of transit timing to detect terrestrial-mass extrasolar planets Science 307 1288–91

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Maffione M, Morris A and Anderson M W 2013 Recognizing detachment-mode seafloor spreading in the deep geological past Sci. Rep. 3 2336

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Wen C-Y, Reuter M C, Bruley J, Tersoff J, Kodambaka S, Stach E A and Ross F M 2009 Formation of compositionally abrupt axial heterojunctions in silicon-germanium nanowires Science 326 1247–50

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ramirez J 2011 Handbook of Corporate Equity Derivatives and Equity Capital Markets (Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.)

An edited book

[1]

Noguera P, Pierce J and Ahram R 2016 Race, Equity, and Education: Sixty Years from Brown (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ogawa K, Sterken E and Tokutsu I 2009 Multiple Bank Relationships and the Main Bank System: Evidence from a Matched Sample of Japanese Small Firms and Main Banks The Economics of Imperfect Markets: The Effects of Market Imperfections on Economic Decision-Making Contributions to Economics ed G Calcagnini and E Saltari (Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD) pp 73–90

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 Study Suggests There are Only Two Subspecies of Tigers 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 1974 Improvement Needed In Documenting Computer Systems (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]

Littlefield S 2017 Application of Discrete Event Simulation to Modeling Reliability of Highly Parallel Systems with Common Cause Failures Doctoral dissertation (Washington, DC: 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

[1]

Walsh M W 2016 A Harbinger of U.S. Woes New York Times B1

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