How to format your references using the Artificial Intelligence and Law citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Artificial Intelligence and Law. 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 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

Cavalleri A (2007) Chemistry. All at once. Science 318:755–756

A journal article with 2 authors

Veillette A, Davidson D (2014) Immunology: When lymphocytes run out of steam. Nature 510:222–223

A journal article with 3 authors

Yin Y, Manoury B, Fåhraeus R (2003) Self-inhibition of synthesis and antigen presentation by Epstein-Barr virus-encoded EBNA1. Science 301:1371–1374

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Son DH, Hughes SM, Yin Y, Paul Alivisatos A (2004) Cation exchange reactions in ionic nanocrystals. Science 306:1009–1012

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gowler DB (2013) James Through the Centuries. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford

An edited book

Gattaz WF, Busatto G (eds) (2010) Advances in Schizophrenia Research 2009. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Łunc M (2011) Equations De Transport. In: Ferrari C (ed) Dinamica dei gas rarefatti. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 223–266

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 Artificial Intelligence and Law.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) CRISPR Gene-Editing Reveals How Our Fingers And Toes Evolved From Fins. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/crispr-geneediting-reveals-fingers-toes-evolved-fins/. 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 (1997) State Department: Provision of Residential Furniture Inconsistent With Best Practices. 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

Brown JR (2010) Trajectories of parents’ experiences in discovering, reporting, and living with the aftermath of middle school bullying. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Kishkovsky S (2001) Distance Learning: RussiaIs Reaching Out. New York Times 4A28

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cavalleri 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Cavalleri 2007; Veillette and Davidson 2014).

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

Two authors: (Veillette and Davidson 2014)
Three or more authors: (Son et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Artificial Intelligence and Law
Abbreviation	Artif. Intell. Law
ISSN (print)	0924-8463
ISSN (online)	1572-8382
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Law