How to format your references using the European Journal of Law and Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Law and Economics. 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

Chu, S. (2002). Cold atoms and quantum control. Nature, 416(6877), 206–210.

A journal article with 2 authors

Snyder, M., & Gerstein, M. (2003). Genomics. Defining genes in the genomics era. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5617), 258–260.

A journal article with 3 authors

James, A., Pitchford, J. W., & Plank, M. J. (2013). James et al. reply. Nature, 500(7463), E2-3.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Park, M. S., Ma, S. B., Lee, D. J., Im, D., Doo, S.-G., & Yamamoto, O. (2014). A highly reversible lithium metal anode. Scientific reports, 4, 3815.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Horton, I. (2010). Ivor Horton’s Beginning Visual C++® 2010. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Grabowski, J., & Nielsen, B. (Eds.). (2005). Formal Approaches to Software Testing: 4th International Workshop, FATES 2004, Linz, Austria, September 21, 2004, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 3395). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Cipolla Ficarra, F. V. (2012). Ergonomy, Industrial Design and Divine Proportion. In F. Cipolla-Ficarra, K. Veltman, M. Cipolla-Ficarra, & A. Kratky (Eds.), Communicability, Computer Graphics and Innovative Design for Interactive Systems: First International Symposium, CCGIDIS 2011, Córdoba, Spain, June 28-29, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 51–66). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 European Journal of Law and Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 2). Robot Law: What Happens if Intelligent Machines Commit Crimes? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robot-law-what-happens-if-intelligent-machines-commit-crimes/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2013). Health Care Workforce: Federally Funded Training Programs in Fiscal Year 2012 (No. GAO-13-709R). Washington, DC: 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

Wright, M. W. (2017). The Louisiana Teacher Assault Pay Statute: An Analysis of Court Decisions Interpreting the Statute and a Comparative Study of Teacher Assault Pay Statutes in Other States (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Conte, L. (2011, March 31). Scouting Report. New York Times, p. E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chu 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Chu 2002; Snyder and Gerstein 2003).

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

Two authors: (Snyder and Gerstein 2003)
Three or more authors: (Park et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Law and Economics
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Law Econ.
ISSN (print)	0929-1261
ISSN (online)	1572-9990
Scope	Business and International Management Economics and Econometrics Law