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

Wolfe, J. M. (2005). Neuroscience. Watching single cells pay attention. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5721), 503–504.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wennberg, P. O., & Dabdub, D. (2008). Atmospheric chemistry. Rethinking ozone production. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5870), 1624–1625.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bustamante, C. D., Burchard, E. G., & De la Vega, F. M. (2011). Genomics for the world. Nature, 475(7355), 163–165.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gill, J. A., Norris, K., Potts, P. M., Gunnarsson, T. G., Atkinson, P. W., & Sutherland, W. J. (2001). The buffer effect and large-scale population regulation in migratory birds. Nature, 412(6845), 436–438.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Norwitz, E. R., Belfort, M. A., Saade, G. R., & Miller, H. (2010). Obstetric Clinical Algorithms: Management and Evidence. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Pertwee, R. G. (Ed.). (2015). Endocannabinoids (1st ed. 2015., Vol. 231). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Meduna, A., & Zemek, P. (2014). Chapter 4 Context-Based Grammatical Regulation. In P. Zemek (Ed.), Regulated Grammars and Automata (pp. 39–154). New York, NY: 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. (2014, April 4). New Information On Nerve Repair May Bring Hope To Spinal Injury Patients. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1986). [Question Concerning Protest Under Army IFB for Dependent School Transportation] (No. B-221710). 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

Hawkins, A. J. (2013). Measurement of the spacial distribution of heat exchange in a geothermal analog bedrock site using fiber-otic distributed temperature sensing (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kelly, K. (2017, April 19). At Goldman, Dim Results For Trading In Early 2017. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wolfe 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Wennberg and Dabdub 2008; Wolfe 2005).

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

Two authors: (Wennberg and Dabdub 2008)
Three or more authors: (Gill et al. 2001)

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