How to format your references using the China Journal of Accounting Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for China Journal of Accounting Research. 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

Edler, J., 2012. Research funding. Toward variable funding for international science. Science 338, 331–332.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tulina, N., Matunis, E., 2001. Control of stem cell self-renewal in Drosophila spermatogenesis by JAK-STAT signaling. Science 294, 2546–2549.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miller, C.J., Nichol, R.C., Batuski, D.J., 2001. Acoustic oscillations in the early universe and today. Science 292, 2302–2303.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhong, S., Zhang, S., Fan, X., Wu, Q., Yan, L., Dong, J., Zhang, H., Li, L., Sun, L., Pan, N., Xu, X., Tang, F., Zhang, J., Qiao, J., Wang, X., 2018. A single-cell RNA-seq survey of the developmental landscape of the human prefrontal cortex. Nature 555, 524–528.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Delgrossi, L., Zhang, T., 2012. Vehicle Safety Communications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Guilmoto, C.Z., Jones, G.W. (Eds.), 2016. Contemporary Demographic Transformations in China, India and Indonesia, Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Puig, L., Guerrero, J.J., 2013. Generic Scale-Space for a Camera Invariant Feature Extractor, in: Guerrero, J.J. (Ed.), Omnidirectional Vision Systems: Calibration, Feature Extraction and 3D Information, SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, London, pp. 87–99.

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 Journal of Accounting Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Health Check: Are My Memory Lapses Normal Or Could This Be Alzheimer’s disease? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/health-check-are-my-memory-lapses-normal-or-could-be-alzheimer-s-disease/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2000. Electronic Signature: Sanction of the Department of State’s System (No. AIMD-00-227R). 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

Topdemir, C.M., 2010. School counselor accountability practices: A national study (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Saslow, L., 2008. Filling the Child Care Breach. New York Times NJ3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Edler, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Edler, 2012; Tulina and Matunis, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Tulina and Matunis, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Zhong et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	China Journal of Accounting Research
Abbreviation	China J. Acc. Res.
ISSN (print)	1755-3091
Scope	Accounting Finance