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

Richard TL. 2010. Challenges in scaling up biofuels infrastructure. Science. 329(5993):793–96

A journal article with 2 authors

Hammock EAD, Young LJ. 2005. Microsatellite instability generates diversity in brain and sociobehavioral traits. Science. 308(5728):1630–34

A journal article with 3 authors

Brennan MD, Cheong R, Levchenko A. 2012. Systems biology. How information theory handles cell signaling and uncertainty. Science. 338(6105):334–35

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Atkinson QD, Meade A, Venditti C, Greenhill SJ, Pagel M. 2008. Languages evolve in punctuational bursts. Science. 319(5863):588

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sinaiski EG. 2011. Hydromechanics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA

An edited book

Mantovani F, Kus A, eds. 2005. The Role of VLBI in Astrophysics, Astrometry and Geodesy, Vol. 135. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

A chapter in an edited book

Okaie Y, Nakano T, Hara T, Nishio S. 2016. Controllability of Mobile Bionanosensors. In Target Detection and Tracking by Bionanosensor Networks, eds. T Nakano, T Hara, S Nishio, pp. 53–58. 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 Annual Review of Law and Social Science.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. New Zealand Company Makes Beer For Cars. 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. 1981. Payments in Lieu of Taxes for Federal Property. 116666, 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

Curry M. 2012. Students’ perceptions of entrepreneurship at a historically black university in central Mississippi. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Mississippi State 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

(nyt) SK. 2004. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Put On A Happy Face. New York Times, May 27, , p. A14

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Richard 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hammock & Young 2005; Richard 2010).

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

Two authors: (Hammock & Young 2005)
Three or more authors: (Atkinson et al. 2008)

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