How to format your references using the Chinese Journal of Aeronautics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese Journal of Aeronautics (CJA). 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	Download the output style file
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

Gladman Brett. The Kuiper belt and the solar system’s comet disk. Science 2005;307(5706):71–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Becskei A., Serrano L. Engineering stability in gene networks by autoregulation. Nature 2000;405(6786):590–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

DeLoache Judy S., Uttal David H., Rosengren Karl S. Scale errors offer evidence for a perception-action dissociation early in life. Science 2004;304(5673):1027–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Biskup Christoph, Kusch Jana, Schulz Eckhard, Nache Vasilica, Schwede Frank, Lehmann Frank, et al. Relating ligand binding to activation gating in CNGA2 channels. Nature 2007;446(7134):440–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fraser John, Simkins Betty J. Enterprise Risk Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Ross Howard, Lee Sang, Champagne Bradley J., Pigazzi Alessio, Rivadeneira David E., editors. Robotic Approaches to Colorectal Surgery. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Jahan Shah, Sakidin Hamzah, Nazar Roslinda. Simultaneous Effects of Soret and Dufour on the Unsteady Stagnation Point Flow of Micropolar Fluid Towards a Permeable Stretching Sheet. In: Kılıçman Adem, Srivastava Hari M., Mursaleen M., Abdul Majid Zanariah, editors. Recent Advances in Mathematical Sciences: Selected Papers from ICREM7 2015. Singapore: Springer; 2016. p. 45–59.

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 Chinese Journal of Aeronautics.

Blog post

Andrews Robin. Motherly Love Dramatically Boosts Brain Growth In Young Children. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/brain/motherly-love-dramatically-boosts-brain-growth-preschool-children/. Accessed October 30, 2018, 2016.

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. Customs Service Modernization: Third Expenditure Plan Meets Legislative Conditions, but Cost Estimating Improvements Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McAlpine Teresa Elizabeth. College students and career: An exploration of vocational anticipatory socialization. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2008.

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

Brantley Ben. Sing a Song of Face Creams. New York Times 2017:C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Chinese Journal of Aeronautics
ISSN (print)	1000-9361
Scope	Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering