How to format your references using the Contemporary Justice Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Contemporary Justice Review. 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

Schaetz, T. (2015). Quantum physics: Entanglement beyond identical ions. Nature, 528(7582), 337–338.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cai, H. N., & Shen, P. (2001). Effects of cis arrangement of chromatin insulators on enhancer-blocking activity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5503), 493–495.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shu, Y., Hasenstaub, A., & McCormick, D. A. (2003). Turning on and off recurrent balanced cortical activity. Nature, 423(6937), 288–293.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Smith, L. C., MacDonald, G. M., Velichko, A. A., Beilman, D. W., Borisova, O. K., Frey, K. E., Kremenetski, K. V., & Sheng, Y. (2004). Siberian peatlands a net carbon sink and global methane source since the early Holocene. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5656), 353–356.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saleh, A. K. M. E., Arashi, M., & Tabatabaey, S. M. M. (2014). Statistical Inference for Models with Multivariate t -Distributed Errors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bock, H. G., Carraro, T., Jäger, W., Körkel, S., Rannacher, R., & Schlöder, J. P. (Eds.). (2013). Model Based Parameter Estimation: Theory and Applications (Vol. 4). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Trancón y Widemann, B., & Lepper, M. (2016). Laminar Data Flow: On the Role of Slicing in Functional Data-Flow Programming. In M. Serrano & J. Hage (Eds.), Trends in Functional Programming: 16th International Symposium, TFP 2015, Sophia Antipolis, France, June 3-5, 2015. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 85–103). 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 Contemporary Justice Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, April 23). What Happened To The Oil From The Deepwater Horizon Spill? ‘Marine Snow’ Provides A Clue. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-happened-oil-deepwater-horizon-spill-marine-snow-provides-clue/

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. (1996). Software Capability Evaluation: VA’s Software Development Process Is Immature (AIMD-96-90). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Viruet, H. B. (2006). Effect of Forklift Operation on Lower Back Pain: An Evidence-Based Approach [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Wagner, J. (2016, November 8). Mets Move to Retain Cespedes and Walker. New York Times, B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schaetz, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Cai & Shen, 2001; Schaetz, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Cai & Shen, 2001)
Three authors: (Shu et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Smith et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Contemporary Justice Review
Abbreviation	Contemp. Justice Rev.
ISSN (print)	1028-2580
ISSN (online)	1477-2248
Scope	Law