How to format your references using the Chinese Science Bulletin citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese Science Bulletin (CSB). 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

Seager S. Exoplanet habitability. Science, 2013, 340: 577–581

A journal article with 2 authors

Convey P, Stevens MI. Ecology. Antarctic biodiversity. Science, 2007, 317: 1877–1878

A journal article with 3 authors

Eggleton PP, Dearborn DSP, Lattanzio JC. Deep mixing of 3He: reconciling Big Bang and stellar nucleosynthesis. Science, 2006, 314: 1580–1583

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Isomura N, Yamauchi C, Takeuchi Y, Takemura A. Does dopamine block the spawning of the acroporid coral Acropora tenuis? Sci Rep, 2013, 3: 2649

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bower JA. Statistical Methods for Food Science. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2013

An edited book

Paranthaman MP, Wong-Ng W, Bhattacharya RN, eds. Semiconductor Materials for Solar Photovoltaic Cells. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016

A chapter in an edited book

Thomaidis NS. A Soft Computing Approach to Enhanced Indexation. In: Brabazon A, O’Neill M, Maringer D, eds. Natural Computing in Computational Finance: Volume 4, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012. 61–77

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 Science Bulletin.

Blog post

Hamilton K. The Quest For The World’s Hottest Chilli. IFLScience, 2016 Available: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-quest-for-the-worlds-hottest-chilli/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Additional Action Needed to Achieve Intended Outcomes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2015

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hall ZB II. General Relativistic Non-Radial Oscillations in Compact Stars. Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach, 2017

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

Taylor K. Named Next President of N.Y.U., Oxford’s Leader Inherits Challenges. New York Times, 2015, A20

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference ^[2].
This sentence cites two references ^[3,4].
This sentence cites four references ^[3,5,7,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Chinese Science Bulletin
ISSN (print)	0023-074X
ISSN (online)	2095-9419
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