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

Körding K (2007) Decision theory: what “should” the nervous system do? Science 318:606–610

A journal article with 2 authors

Demaine LJ, Fellmeth AX (2003) Patent law. Natural substances and patentable inventions. Science 300:1375–1376

A journal article with 3 authors

Tang C, Iwahara J, Clore GM (2006) Visualization of transient encounter complexes in protein-protein association. Nature 444:383–386

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bourc’his D, Xu GL, Lin CS, et al (2001) Dnmt3L and the establishment of maternal genomic imprints. Science 294:2536–2539

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Böhm M (2005) Symmetrien in Festkörpern. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Apolloni B, Marinaro M, Tagliaferri R (eds) (2005) Biological and Artificial Intelligence Environments: 15th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN VIETRI 2004. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Chittenden F, Iancich S, Sloan B (2009) Techniques Available for Estimating the Impact of Regulations. In: Nijsen A, Hudson J, Müller C, et al. (eds) Business Regulation and Public Policy: The Costs and Benefits of Compliance. Springer, New York, NY, pp 1–17

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

Davis J (2015) Camera Powered With Ambient Wi-Fi Signals. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/powering-cameras-ambient-wi-fi/. 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 (2014) Whistleblower Protection Program: Opportunities Exist for OSHA and DOT to Strengthen Collaborative Mechanisms. 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

Wilkerson K (2010) A comprehensive educational program for male and female teen parents: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Harwood J (2016) Republicans are battling themselves. New York Times A2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Körding 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Demaine and Fellmeth 2003; Körding 2007).

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

Two authors: (Demaine and Fellmeth 2003)
Three or more authors: (Bourc’his et al. 2001)

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

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