How to format your references using the International Communication of Chinese Culture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Communication of Chinese Culture. 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

Randall, L. (2002). Extra dimensions and warped geometries. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5572), 1422–1427.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brongersma, M. L., & Shalaev, V. M. (2010). Applied physics. The case for plasmonics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5977), 440–441.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chait, R., Craney, A., & Kishony, R. (2007). Antibiotic interactions that select against resistance. Nature, 446(7136), 668–671.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yi, S., Huang, Z., Huang, J., Fang, M., Liu, Y., & Zhang, S. (2014). Novel calcium hexaluminate/spinel-alumina composites with graded microstructures and mechanical properties. Scientific reports, 4, 4333.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Corten, R. (2014). Computational Approaches to Studying the Co-evolution of Networks and Behavior in Social Dilemmas. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Swoboda, B., Morschett, D., Rudolph, T., Schnedlitz, P., & Schramm-Klein, H. (Eds.). (2009). European Retail Research. Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag.

A chapter in an edited book

Mariotti, M. (2016). Selenocysteine Extinctions in Insects. In C. Raman, M. R. Goldsmith, & T. A. Agunbiade (Eds.), Short Views on Insect Genomics and Proteomics: Insect Proteomics, Vol.2 (pp. 113–140). 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 International Communication of Chinese Culture.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, March 25). A Perfect Match: Two Halves Of Turtle Fossil Discovered 163 Years Apart. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/perfect-match-two-halves-turtle-fossil-discovered-163-years-apart/. 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. (2000). Electronic Government: Federal Initiatives Are Evolving Rapidly But They Face Significant Challenges (No. T-AIMD/GGD-00-179). 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

Brookman, D. (2009). Establishing context for referents in online chatroom conversations (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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, B. (2017, May 9). After 15 Years, New York Is Back as Grammy Host. New York Times, p. B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Randall 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Brongersma and Shalaev 2010; Randall 2002).

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

Two authors: (Brongersma and Shalaev 2010)
Three or more authors: (Yi et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Communication of Chinese Culture
Abbreviation	Int. Commun. Chin. Cult.
ISSN (print)	2197-4233
ISSN (online)	2197-4241
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