How to format your references using the Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. 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

Smaglik, Paul. 2003. Recruitment blueprint. Nature 422: 95.

A journal article with 2 authors

Poldrack, Russell A., and Martha J. Farah. 2015. Progress and challenges in probing the human brain. Nature 526: 371–379.

A journal article with 3 authors

Runnels, L. W., L. Yue, and D. E. Clapham. 2001. TRP-PLIK, a bifunctional protein with kinase and ion channel activities. Science (New York, N.Y.) 291: 1043–1047.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Chelton, Dudley B., Michael G. Schlax, Michael H. Freilich, and Ralph F. Milliff. 2004. Satellite measurements reveal persistent small-scale features in ocean winds. Science (New York, N.Y.) 303: 978–983.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ham, Bryan M. 2011. Proteomics of Biological Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ferdinand, Keith C., and Annemarie Armani, ed. 2010. Cardiovascular Disease in Racial and Ethnic Minorities. Contemporary Cardiology. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Dumont, Marine, Andy Cook, and Norton Kinsley. 2016. Acceleration Measurement Optimization: Mounting Considerations and Sensor Mass Effect. In Topics in Modal Analysis & Testing, Volume 10: Proceedings of the 34th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2016, ed. Michael Mains, 61–71. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Cham: 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 Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2014. Visit Any US National Park Completely Free on Monday. IFLScience. IFLScience. August 24.

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. 1981. Government-Wide Guidelines and Management Assistance Center Needed To Improve ADP Systems Development. AFMD-81-20. 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

Khaleghi, Farrah K. 2017. Evaluating Satisfaction of Participants within the Outreach and Engagement Program of MECCA. Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Poniewozik, James. 2017. Rebelling Against a Charmed Life. New York Times, June 29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2003; Poldrack and Farah 2015).

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

Two authors: (Poldrack and Farah 2015)
Three or more authors: (Chelton et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences
ISSN (print)	1674-0750
ISSN (online)	2198-2600
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