How to format your references using the Chinese Political Science Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese Political Science 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

Pizzorusso, Tommaso. 2009. Neuroscience. Erasing fear memories. Science (New York, N.Y.) 325: 1214–1215.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilson, Timothy J., and David M. J. Lilley. 2009. Biochemistry. The evolution of ribozyme chemistry. Science (New York, N.Y.) 323: 1436–1438.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liang, Pei-Shih, Tu San Park, and Jeong-Yeol Yoon. 2014. Rapid and reagentless detection of microbial contamination within meat utilizing a smartphone-based biosensor. Scientific reports 4: 5953.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Legros, Marc, Gerhard Dehm, Eduard Arzt, and T. John Balk. 2008. Observation of giant diffusivity along dislocation cores. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319: 1646–1649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nicu, Liviu, and Thierry Leïchlé. 2013. Micro- and Nanoelectromechanical Biosensors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Babin, Anatoli. 2016. Neoclassical Theory of Electromagnetic Interactions: A Single Theory for Macroscopic and Microscopic Scales. Edited by Alexander Figotin. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Neri, Emanuele, and Silvio Mazziotti. 2012. Ruolo della TC Dentascan nella valutazione pre-implantare. In Il Dentascan, ed. Silvio Mazziotti, 23–31. Springer ABC. Milano: Springer.

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 Political Science Review.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2016. Neurotransmitter Boost Has Fast-Acting Antidepressant Effects In Mice. IFLScience. IFLScience. November 10.

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. 2005. Highway Safety: Further Opportunities Exist to Improve Data on Crashes Involving Commercial Motor Vehicles. GAO-06-102. 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

Holliday, Scot. 2010. A case study of how DuPont reduced its environment footprint: The role of organizational change in sustainability. Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington University.

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

Sisario, Ben. 2017. Concord Bicycle Music Buying Imagem Music. New York Times, June 2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pizzorusso 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Pizzorusso 2009; Wilson and Lilley 2009).

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

Two authors: (Wilson and Lilley 2009)
Three or more authors: (Legros et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chinese Political Science Review
Abbreviation	Chin. Polit. Sci. Rev.
ISSN (print)	2365-4244
ISSN (online)	2365-4252
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