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

de Waal, Frans B. M. 2009. Darwin’s last laugh. Nature 460: 175.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crandall, Keith A., and Jennifer E. Buhay. 2004. Evolution. Genomic databases and the tree of life. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306: 1144–1145.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rojstaczer, S., S. M. Sterling, and N. J. Moore. 2001. Human appropriation of photosynthesis products. Science (New York, N.Y.) 294: 2549–2552.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Han, Xiao, Richmond Lee, Tao Chen, Jie Luo, Yixin Lu, and Kuo-Wei Huang. 2013. Kinetic evidence of an apparent negative activation enthalpy in an organocatalytic process. Scientific reports 3: 2557.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Federer, Walter T., and Freedom King. 2007. Variations on Split Plot and Split Block Experiment Designs: Federer/Variations on Split Plot and Split Block Experiment Designs. Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

López-Gómez, J. 2007. Algebraic Multiplicity of Eigenvalues of Linear Operators. Edited by C. Mora-Corral. Vol. 177. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Low, Felicia M., Emilia Tng, and Peter D. Gluckman. 2012. Epigenetic Mechanisms. In Neonatology: A Practical Approach to Neonatal Diseases, ed. Giuseppe Buonocore, Rodolfo Bracci, and Michael Weindling, 26–30. Milano: Springer.

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

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2015. New Horizons Will Arrive At Pluto Tomorrow! IFLScience. IFLScience. July 13.

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. 1997. Highway Safety: NHTSA’s Motorcycle Helmet Activities. RCED-98-44R. 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

Dang, Ha. 2010. The cummulative incidence estimate versus the Kaplan Meier method in medical research. 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

Kelly, Sean. 1996. Children’s Books;The Wonderful World of Dahl. New York Times, May 19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (de Waal 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Crandall and Buhay 2004; de Waal 2009).

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

Two authors: (Crandall and Buhay 2004)
Three or more authors: (Han et al. 2013)

About the journal

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