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

Shukla J. 2007. Atmosphere. Monsoon mysteries. Science. 318(5848):204–5

A journal article with 2 authors

Vinnakota RK, Genov DA. 2014. Terahertz optoelectronics with surface plasmon polariton diode. Sci. Rep. 4:4899

A journal article with 3 authors

Ehrlich PR, Kareiva PM, Daily GC. 2012. Securing natural capital and expanding equity to rescale civilization. Nature. 486(7401):68–73

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Breitkreutz A, Choi H, Sharom JR, Boucher L, Neduva V, et al. 2010. A global protein kinase and phosphatase interaction network in yeast. Science. 328(5981):1043–46

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berthou P, Baudoin C, Gayraud T, Gineste M. 2015. Satellite and Terrestrial Hybrid Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ferrández Vicente JM, Álvarez-Sánchez JR, de la Paz López F, Toledo-Moreo FJ, Adeli H, eds. 2015. Bioinspired Computation in Artificial Systems: International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2015, Elche, Spain, June 1-5, 2015, Proceedings, Part II, Vol. 9108. Cham: Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Mo W, Guan S-U, Puthusserypady SK. 2007. A Novel Hybrid Algorithm for Function Optimization: Particle Swarm Assisted Incremental Evolution Strategy. In Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms, eds. A Abraham, C Grosan, H Ishibuchi, pp. 101–25. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Annual Review of Law and Social Science.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2016. New Hypothesis Could Explain How The “Impossible” EM Drive Works. 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. 1971. Contract With Education, Training, and Research Sciences Corporation for Processing Applications To Serve in the VISTA Program. B-164031(1), 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

McDuffie CA. 2017. Melodies of intervention: Music therapy for transitional-age youth: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation thesis. 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

Wilson M. 2017. A Gadget Is Favored by Fingers Both Restless and Sticky. New York Times, May 22, , p. A22

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shukla 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Shukla 2007; Vinnakota & Genov 2014).

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

Two authors: (Vinnakota & Genov 2014)
Three or more authors: (Breitkreutz et al. 2010)

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