How to format your references using the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies. 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

Nadis, S. 2000. “Industry Considers Carbon Catching.” Nature 406 (6793): 224.

A journal article with 2 authors

Collerson, Kenneth D., and Marshall I. Weisler. 2007. “Stone Adze Compositions and the Extent of Ancient Polynesian Voyaging and Trade.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 317 (5846): 1907–1911.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kersten, S., B. Desvergne, and W. Wahli. 2000. “Roles of PPARs in Health and Disease.” Nature 405 (6785): 421–424.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ouyang, M., J. L. Huang, C. L. Cheung, and C. M. Lieber. 2001. “Atomically Resolved Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Intramolecular Junctions.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 291 (5501): 97–100.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. 2014. Trayed and Packed Columns. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Clark, Susan G., Aaron M. Hohl, Catherine H. Picard, and Elizabeth Thomas, eds. 2015. Large-Scale Conservation in the Common Interest. Springer Series on Environmental Management. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Roy, Uttam, and Mrinmoy Majumder. 2016. “Methodology.” In Impact of Climate Change on Small Scale Hydro-Turbine Selections, edited by Mrinmoy Majumder, 13–18. SpringerBriefs in Energy. Singapore: 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 Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. 2014. “Craters From Double Asteroid Impact Identified.” IFLScience, IFLScience, March 20.

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. 1994. Illegal Aliens: Assessing Estimates of Financial Burden on California. HEHS-95-22. 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

Sharma, Surinder Paul. 2017. “U.S. Government Program Managers’ Competencies to Manage Satellite Acquisition Programs.” Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Greenhouse, Linda. 2007. “Justices, Voting 5-4, Limit the Use of Race In Integration Plans.” New York Times, June 29, 2007.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nadis 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Nadis 2000; Collerson and Weisler 2007).

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

Two authors: (Collerson and Weisler 2007)
Three authors: (Kersten, Desvergne, and Wahli 2000)
4 or more authors: (Ouyang et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies
ISSN (print)	1476-5284
ISSN (online)	1476-5292
Scope	General Economics, Econometrics and Finance