How to format your references using the The Journal of Chinese Sociology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Chinese Sociology. 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

Rhodes, Christopher J. 2005. Type 2 diabetes-a matter of beta-cell life and death? Science (New York, N.Y.) 307: 380–384.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hashizume, Ko, and Marc Chaussidon. 2005. A non-terrestrial 16O-rich isotopic composition for the protosolar nebula. Nature 434: 619–622.

A journal article with 3 authors

Volkov, Igor, Jayanth R. Banavar, and Amos Maritan. 2006. Comment on “Computational improvements reveal great bacterial diversity and high metal toxicity in soil.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 313: 918; author reply 918.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Atwood, J. A., 3rd, D. B. Weatherly, T. A. Minning, B. Bundy, C. Cavola, F. R. Opperdoes, R. Orlando, and R. L. Tarleton. 2005. The Trypanosoma cruzi proteome. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309: 473–476.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwartz, Pepper, and Martha Kempner. 2015. 50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Sanfilippo, Joseph S. 2007. Primary Care in Obstetrics and Gynecology: A Handbook for Clinicians. Edited by Roger P. Smith. Second Edition. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

De Mattos-Arruda, Leticia, and Javier Cortés. 2013. HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer: First-Line Treatment. In Handbook of HER2-targeted agents in breast cancer, ed. Javier Cortés, Leticia De Mattos-Arruda, Mary Falzon, Angelica Fasolo, Michael Gandy, Luca Gianni, Nadia Harbeck, Martine Piccart, Stefania Zambelli, and Dimitrios Zardavas, 43–60. Tarporley: Springer Healthcare Ltd.

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 The Journal of Chinese Sociology.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2017. Researchers Create Artificial Mouse “Embryo” From Stem Cells. IFLScience. IFLScience. March 2.

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. 1999. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness Improving, But Much Work Remains to Avoid Major Disruptions. T-AIMD-99-50. 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

Randall, Regina. 2009. Department of Children and Family Services workers’ knowledge of childhood obesity and services for obese children. 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

Fiske, Isabella Howe. 1906. KEATS’S “LAMIA.”; Found on Shelley’s Drowned Body and Cast Into His Funeral Flames. New York Times, February 3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Rhodes 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Hashizume and Chaussidon 2005; Rhodes 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Hashizume and Chaussidon 2005)
Three or more authors: (Atwood et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Chinese Sociology
Abbreviation	J. Chin. Sociol.
ISSN (online)	2198-2635
Scope