How to format your references using the Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment. 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

Fortey R. 2001. Evolution. The Cambrian explosion exploded? Science. 293(5529):438–439.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heilbron JL, Bynum WF. 2003. 1903 and all that. Nature. 421(6918):15–18.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bishop JKB, Davis RE, Sherman JT. 2002. Robotic observations of dust storm enhancement of carbon biomass in the North Pacific. Science. 298(5594):817–821.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Li J, Stein D, McMullan C, Branton D, Aziz MJ, Golovchenko JA. 2001. Ion-beam sculpting at nanometre length scales. Nature. 412(6843):166–169.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gordon MJ Jr. 2010. Total Quality Process Control for Injection Molding. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Viana M, editor. 2016. Indoor and Outdoor Nanoparticles: Determinants of Release and Exposure Scenarios. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Mah KK, Cheng HM. 2015. Respiratory Recreation. In: Cheng HM, editor. Learning and Teaching Tools for Basic and Clinical Respiratory Physiology. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 39–50.

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 Population Resources and Environment.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. Lung Capacity Of A Smoker Vs Non-Smoker. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/lung-capacity-smoker-vs-non-smoker/

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. 1995. Cassini Mission: Estimated Launch Costs for NASA’s Mission to Saturn. Washington, DC: 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

Doddick S. 2012. Noncontact 2D Plethysmography: A non-invasive technique for monitoring dynamic trends in a respiratory system [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

St. John Kelly E. 1998. Media Talk; WBAI Makes a Home on Wall Street. New York Times.:D8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fortey 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Fortey 2001; Heilbron and Bynum 2003).

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

Two authors: (Heilbron and Bynum 2003)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment
Abbreviation	China Popul. Resour. Environ.
ISSN (print)	1004-2857
ISSN (online)	2325-4262
Scope	Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Toxicology Demography