How to format your references using the China-EU Law Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for China-EU Law 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

Smaglik P (2003) A team effort. Nature 424:471

A journal article with 2 authors

Buyx A, Tait J (2011) Ethics. Ethical framework for biofuels. Science 332:540–541

A journal article with 3 authors

Stevens RC, Yokoyama S, Wilson IA (2001) Global efforts in structural genomics. Science 294:89–92

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lin J-F, Vankó G, Jacobsen SD, et al (2007) Spin transition zone in Earth’s lower mantle. Science 317:1740–1743

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Singleton TW, Singleton AJ (2010) Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Moscovici H (2013) Learn Science, Learn Math, Learn to Teach Science and Math, Homo Sapiens! SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Henry BW, Malu KF (2011) Coaching, Mentoring, and Supervision for Workplace Learning. In: Hafler JP (ed) Extraordinary Learning in the Workplace. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 63–84

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-EU Law Journal.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2016) Why Is The Sun Blank? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-is-the-sun-blank/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1991) Aviation Acquisition: Further Changes Needed in FAA’s Management and Budgeting Practices. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Bleicher J (2008) Scenario methods as a means for enhancing organizational learning: A Delphi study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Otis J (2017) Academy Eases the Angst of Adolescent Refugees. New York Times A4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2003; Buyx and Tait 2011).

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

Two authors: (Buyx and Tait 2011)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	China-EU Law Journal
ISSN (print)	1868-5153
ISSN (online)	1868-5161
Scope