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

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

Selkoe, D. J. (2003). Folding proteins in fatal ways. Nature, 426(6968), 900–904.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berkman, M. B., & Plutzer, E. (2011). Science education. Defeating creationism in the courtroom, but not in the classroom. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6016), 404–405.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bourgeois, C., Rocha, B., & Tanchot, C. (2002). A role for CD40 expression on CD8+ T cells in the generation of CD8+ T cell memory. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5589), 2060–2063.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Lin, Y., Bloodgood, B. L., Hauser, J. L., Lapan, A. D., Koon, A. C., Kim, T.-K., Hu, L. S., Malik, A. N., & Greenberg, M. E. (2008). Activity-dependent regulation of inhibitory synapse development by Npas4. Nature, 455(7217), 1198–1204.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rios Insua, D., Ruggeri, F., & Wiper, M. P. (2012). Bayesian Analysis of Stochastic Process Models: Ruggeri/Bayesian Analysis of Stochastic Process Models. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Szende, A., Janssen, B., & Cabases, J. (Eds.). (2014). Self-Reported Population Health: An International Perspective based on EQ-5D. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Nachtigall, W., & Wisser, A. (2015). STYLING AND DESIGN. In A. Wisser (Ed.), Bionics by Examples: 250 Scenarios from Classical to Modern Times (pp. 87–95). 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 Journal of Accounting Studies.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, September 5). Europa’s Giant Geysers Disappear. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/where-have-europas-giant-geysers-gone/

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). Healthcare.gov: Information Security and Privacy Controls Should Be Enhanced to Address Weaknesses (GAO-14-871T). 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

Kingsley, S. J. (2012). Preschool teachers’ perceptions of factors influencing their referral decisions for young children with severe behavior problems [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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

Qiu, L. (2017, February 19). Fact Check: What Trump Got Wrong at His Rally. New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Selkoe, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Berkman & Plutzer, 2011; Selkoe, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Berkman & Plutzer, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	China Journal of Accounting Studies
Abbreviation	China J. Acc. Stud.
ISSN (print)	2169-7221
ISSN (online)	2169-7213
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