How to format your references using the Annual Review of Law and Social Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Law and Social Science. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Barkana R. 2006. The first stars in the universe and cosmic reionization. Science. 313(5789):931–34

A journal article with 2 authors

Woyke T, Rubin EM. 2014. Evolution. Searching for new branches on the tree of life. Science. 346(6210):698–99

A journal article with 3 authors

Okuda S, Freinkman E, Kahne D. 2012. Cytoplasmic ATP hydrolysis powers transport of lipopolysaccharide across the periplasm in E. coli. Science. 338(6111):1214–17

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liu B, Bhatt D, Oltvai ZN, Greenberger JS, Bahar I. 2014. Significance of p53 dynamics in regulating apoptosis in response to ionizing radiation, and polypharmacological strategies. Sci. Rep. 4:6245

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaplan W. 1998. Maxima and Minima with Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hamano Y, ed. 2010. Amino-Acid Homopolymers Occurring in Nature, Vol. 15. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

McTear M, Callejas Z, Griol D. 2016. Conversational Interfaces: Past and Present. In The Conversational Interface: Talking to Smart Devices, eds. Z Callejas, D Griol, pp. 51–72. 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 Annual Review of Law and Social Science.

Blog post

Evans K. 2016. Chinese Environmental Officials Arrested For Faking Air Pollution Results. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. Preschool Education: Federal Investment for Low-Income Children Significant but Effectiveness Unclear. T-HEHS-00-83, 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

Chappel AM. 2012. A Longitudinal Investigation of Stress, Complete Mental Health, and Social Support among High School Students. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of South Florida

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

Dominus S. 2015. Stride Rights. New York Times, April 23, , p. MM28

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barkana 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Barkana 2006; Woyke & Rubin 2014).

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

Two authors: (Woyke & Rubin 2014)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Law and Social Science
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Law Soc. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1550-3585
ISSN (online)	1550-3631
Scope	Law Sociology and Political Science