How to format your references using the China Economic Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for China Economic Journal. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Schubert, Charlotte. 2011. “Single-Cell Analysis: The Deepest Differences.” Nature 480 (7375): 133–137.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yin, Jie, and Mary C. Boyce. 2015. “Materials Science: Unique Wrinkles as Identity Tags.” Nature 520 (7546): 164–165.

A journal article with 3 authors

Irwin, D. E., S. Bensch, and T. D. Price. 2001. “Speciation in a Ring.” Nature 409 (6818): 333–337.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lachner, M., D. O’Carroll, S. Rea, K. Mechtler, and T. Jenuwein. 2001. “Methylation of Histone H3 Lysine 9 Creates a Binding Site for HP1 Proteins.” Nature 410 (6824): 116–120.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tattar, Prabhanjan Narayanachar, Suresh Ramaiah, and B. G. Manjunath. 2016. A Course in Statistics With R. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Polini, Marco, Giovanni Vignale, Vittorio Pellegrini, and Jainendra K. Jain, eds. 2016. No-Nonsense Physicist: An Overview of Gabriele Giuliani’s Work and Life. Vol. 2. Publications of the Scuola Normale Superiore. Pisa: Scuola Normale Superiore.

A chapter in an edited book

Zimmer, Ephraim, Jens Lindemann, Dominik Herrmann, and Hannes Federrath. 2016. “Catching Inside Attackers: Balancing Forensic Detectability and Privacy of Employees.” In Open Problems in Network Security: IFIP WG 11.4 International Workshop, iNetSec 2015, Zurich, Switzerland, October 29, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, edited by Jan Camenisch and Doğan Kesdoğan, 43–55. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 China Economic Journal.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2014. “Rare Blurring Of Black Hole Light Observed.” IFLScience, IFLScience, August 13. https://www.iflscience.com/space/rare-blurring-black-hole-light-observed/.

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. 2014. Transportation Security Information Sharing: Stakeholder Satisfaction Varies; TSA Could Take Additional Actions to Strengthen Efforts. GAO-14-506. 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

Cornelius, Jennifer. 2017. “Five Minute Meditation Used to Impact Workplace Meetings.” Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Novick, Susan M. 2015. “Elevating the Humble Wing at Sports Bars.” New York Times, December 13, 2015.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schubert 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Schubert 2011; Yin and Boyce 2015).

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

Two authors: (Yin and Boyce 2015)
Three authors: (Irwin, Bensch, and Price 2001)
4 or more authors: (Lachner et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	China Economic Journal
Abbreviation	China Economic J.
ISSN (print)	1753-8963
ISSN (online)	1753-8971
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance Sociology and Political Science Cultural Studies