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

Keith, D. W. (2009). Why capture CO2 from the atmosphere? Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5948), 1654–1655.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ashworth, A. C., & Thompson, F. C. (2003). Palaeontology: A fly in the biogeographic ointment. Nature, 423(6936), 135–136.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smilkov, D., Hidalgo, C. A., & Kocarev, L. (2014). Beyond network structure: How heterogeneous susceptibility modulates the spread of epidemics. Scientific Reports, 4, 4795.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ferrer, M., Golyshina, O. V., Beloqui, A., Golyshin, P. N., & Timmis, K. N. (2007). The cellular machinery of Ferroplasma acidiphilum is iron-protein-dominated. Nature, 445(7123), 91–94.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walkenbach, J. (2010). Excel® VBA Programming For Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Popescu-Zeletin, R., Jonas, K., Rai, I. A., Glitho, R., & Villafiorita, A. (Eds.). (2012). e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries: Third International ICST Conference, AFRICOMM 2011, Zanzibar, Tanzania, November 23-24, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 92). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Howe, A. S. (2013). Knobology. In J. M. Daniels & W. W. Dexter (Eds.), Basics of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound (pp. 11–13). 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 Contemporary Justice Review.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, November 18). New Map Shows That Asteroids Hit Earth Far More Often Than We Thought. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/over-500-fireballs-have-impacted-earth-last-20-years/

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. (2011). Social Security Statements: Observations on SSA’s Plans for the Social Security Statement (GAO-11-787T). 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

Alai, N. L. (2017). Development of a Sport-Specific Curriculum Addressing Selfefficacy to Optimize Carbohydrate and Calorie Intake Among Male and Female High School Cross-Country Runners [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

Koblin, J. (2017, March 21). Fox Sidelines Legal Analyst After Wiretap Allegation. New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Keith, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Ashworth & Thompson, 2003; Keith, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Ashworth & Thompson, 2003)
Three authors: (Smilkov et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Ferrer et al., 2007)

About the journal

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