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

Siegel, J. M. (2001). The REM sleep-memory consolidation hypothesis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5544), 1058–1063.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rahman, M. A., & Halfar, J. (2014). First evidence of chitin in calcified coralline algae: new insights into the calcification process of Clathromorphum compactum. Scientific Reports, 4, 6162.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gerber, L. R., Hyrenbach, K. D., & Zacharias, M. A. (2005). Ecology. Do the largest protected areas conserve whales or whalers? Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5709), 525–526.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Hu, C., Ahmed, M., Melia, T. J., Söllner, T. H., Mayer, T., & Rothman, J. E. (2003). Fusion of cells by flipped SNAREs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5626), 1745–1749.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hirsch, H. L. (2005). Essential Communication Strategies for Scientists, Engineers, and Technology Professionals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kutnjak Ivković, S., & Haberfeld, M. R. (Eds.). (2015). Measuring Police Integrity Across the World: Studies from Established Democracies and Countries in Transition. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Soslow, R. A., & Oliva, E. (2009). Uterine Cancer. In E. Oliva & F. Muggia (Eds.), Uterine Cancer: Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (pp. 51–86). Humana Press.

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, July 31). Here’s How You Can See Subatomic Particles At Home. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/heres-how-you-can-see-subatomic-particles-home/

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. (1999). Federal Aviation Administration: Financial Management Issues (T-AIMD-99-122). 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

Wilday, D. (2014). Soulmaking within the destructive side of God seeing through monotheism’s holy warrior 9/11 to prehistory [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Saslow, L. (2007, February 18). A Virus Endangers Trout at Big Hatchery. New York Times, 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Siegel, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Rahman & Halfar, 2014; Siegel, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Rahman & Halfar, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Hu et al., 2003)

About the journal

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