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

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

Blow, Nathan. 2009. Functional Neuroscience: How to get ahead in imaging. Nature 458: 925–928.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gao, Ke-Qin, and Neil H. Shubin. 2003. Earliest known crown-group salamanders. Nature 422: 424–428.

A journal article with 3 authors

Timm, Robert M., Rob Roy Ramey 2nd, and Nomenclature Committee of the American Society of Mammalogists. 2005. What constitutes a proper description? Science (New York, N.Y.) 309: 2163–6; author reply 2163-6.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zappacosta, Diego C., Ana C. Ochogavía, Juan M. Rodrigo, José R. Romero, Mauro S. Meier, Ingrid Garbus, Silvina C. Pessino, and Viviana C. Echenique. 2014. Increased apomixis expression concurrent with genetic and epigenetic variation in a newly synthesized Eragrostis curvula polyploid. Scientific reports 4: 4423.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sharma, Yogesh C. 2011. A Guide to the Economic Removal of Metals from Aqueous Solutions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Filipe, Joaquim, and Mohammad S. Obaidat, ed. 2009. e-Business and Telecommunications: International Conference, ICETE 2008, Porto, Portugal, July 26-29, 2008, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 48. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rizzo, Angela Maria, Patrizia Berselli, Stefania Zava, Gigliola Montorfano, Manuela Negroni, Paola Corsetto, and Bruno Berra. 2010. Endogenous Antioxidants and Radical Scavengers. In Bio-Farms for Nutraceuticals: Functional Food and Safety Control by Biosensors, ed. Maria Teresa Giardi, Giuseppina Rea, and Bruno Berra, 52–67. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 The Journal of Chinese Sociology.

Blog post

Taub, Ben. 2016. Researchers Reverse Aging In Mice By Triggering Embryonic Genes. IFLScience. IFLScience. December 19.

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. 1993. Mass Transit: Needs Projections Could Better Reflect Future Costs. RCED-93-61. 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

Arzaga, Cherise B. 2012. Homeless shelter program for the elderly in Los Angeles, California: A grant writing project. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kelly, David. 1989. In Short: Fiction. New York Times, December 31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blow 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Gao and Shubin 2003; Blow 2009).

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

Two authors: (Gao and Shubin 2003)
Three or more authors: (Zappacosta et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Chinese Sociology
Abbreviation	J. Chin. Sociol.
ISSN (online)	2198-2635
Scope