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

Carstensen, L. L. (2006). The influence of a sense of time on human development. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5782), 1913–1915.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kohno, M., & Koizumi, Y. (2000). Tokaimura accident. Neutron dose estimates from 5-yen coins. Nature, 406(6797), 693.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jackson, D. E., Holcombe, M., & Ratnieks, F. L. W. (2004). Trail geometry gives polarity to ant foraging networks. Nature, 432(7019), 907–909.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Battin, T. J., Kaplan, L. A., Denis Newbold, J., & Hansen, C. M. E. (2003). Contributions of microbial biofilms to ecosystem processes in stream mesocosms. Nature, 426(6965), 439–442.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. (2010). Guidelines for Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sun, B. (Ed.). (2014). T Helper Cell Differentiation and Their Function (Vol. 841). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

De Simone, A., Dong, Y., Vivancos, P. D., & Foyer, C. H. (2015). GSH Partitioning Between the Nucleus and Cytosol in Arabidopsis thaliana. In L. J. De Kok, M. J. Hawkesford, H. Rennenberg, K. Saito, & E. Schnug (Eds.), Molecular Physiology and Ecophysiology of Sulfur (pp. 37–48). Cham: 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 European Journal of Law and Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 17). Your Brain on MDMA. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/your-brain-mdma/. 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. (2007). Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes (No. GAO-08-202R). 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

Casale, N. (2015). Generational preferences in marketing medium selections of animal adoptions in nonprofit organizations: A correlational study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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, C. (2012, January 22). Austin Brothers Fill Idiosyncratic Niche at Sundance. New York Times, p. A27B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carstensen 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Carstensen 2006; Kohno and Koizumi 2000).

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

Two authors: (Kohno and Koizumi 2000)
Three or more authors: (Battin et al. 2003)

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