How to format your references using the China Finance and Economic Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for China Finance and Economic Review. 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

Kloosterman WP (2015) GENETICS. Making heads or tails of shattered chromosomes. Science 348:1205–1206

A journal article with 2 authors

Lasaga AC, Luttge A (2001) Variation of crystal dissolution rate based on a dissolution stepwave model. Science 291:2400–2404

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang M, Atkinson KR, Baughman RH (2004) Multifunctional carbon nanotube yarns by downsizing an ancient technology. Science 306:1358–1361

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Luo SX, Huang J, Li Q, et al (2018) Regulation of feeding by somatostatin neurons in the tuberal nucleus. Science 361:76–81

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deroussi L (2016) Metaheuristics for Logistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bronstein MD (ed) (2011) Cushing’s Syndrome: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

A chapter in an edited book

Van Goethem JWM (2006) Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Spine. In: Reimer P, Parizel PM, Stichnoth F-A (eds) Clinical MR Imaging: A Practical Approach. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 147–172

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 Finance and Economic Review.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) Scientists Develop Beer That Doesn’t Give You A Hangover. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hangover-free-beer-anyone/. 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 (1989) Student Athletes: Information on Their Academic Performance. 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

Rutherford KB (2017) 500 Year Chenier, Architecture, Cultural Identity, and Land Change “Identification in a Dynamic Place.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Kishkovsky S, Sulcas R (2015) Acid Attack Victim to Leave the Bolshoi. New York Times C4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kloosterman 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lasaga and Luttge 2001; Kloosterman 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lasaga and Luttge 2001)
Three or more authors: (Luo et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	China Finance and Economic Review
Abbreviation	China Fin. Econ. Rev.
ISSN (online)	2196-5633
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