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

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

Salzberg S (2008) The contents of the syringe. Nature 454:160–161

A journal article with 2 authors

Lansbury PT, Lashuel HA (2006) A century-old debate on protein aggregation and neurodegeneration enters the clinic. Nature 443:774–779

A journal article with 3 authors

Miller JD, Scott EC, Okamoto S (2006) Science communication. Public acceptance of evolution. Science 313:765–766

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Qin W, Gong M, Shastry T, et al (2014) Charge-transfer induced magnetic field effects of nano-carbon heterojunctions. Sci Rep 4:6126

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Olsen D (2015) The Lean Product Playbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Andrews PS, Timmis J, Owens NDL, et al (2009) Artificial Immune Systems: 8th International Conference, ICARIS 2009, York, UK, August 9-12, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Lodha S, Thomas D (2008) Probabilistic Anonymity. In: Bonchi F, Ferrari E, Malin B, Saygin Y (eds) Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD: First ACM SIGKDD International Workshop, PinKDD 2007, San Jose, CA, USA, August 12, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 56–79

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 Studies.

Blog post

Andrew D (2014) Incredible Optical Illusion Tattoo. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1998) School Finance: State and Federal Efforts to Target Poor Students. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lorentz J (2009) The effect of requirements prioritization on avionics system conceptual design. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Crow K (2003) The Gift Is a Subway Station, But Some Look It in the Mouth. New York Times 145

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Chinese Studies
Abbreviation	J. Chin. Stud.
ISSN (online)	2199-868X
Scope