How to format your references using the Feminist Legal Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Feminist Legal Studies. 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

Guthrie, R. Dale. 2003. Rapid body size decline in Alaskan Pleistocene horses before extinction. Nature 426: 169–171.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brei, Brandon, and Durland Fish. 2003. Comment on “Parasites as a viability cost of sexual selection in natural populations of mammals.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 300: 55; author reply 55.

A journal article with 3 authors

Katz, Richard F., Marc Spiegelman, and Benjamin Holtzman. 2006. The dynamics of melt and shear localization in partially molten aggregates. Nature 442: 676–679.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Sachs, Jeffrey, Roseline Remans, Sean Smukler, Leigh Winowiecki, Sandy J. Andelman, Kenneth G. Cassman, David Castle, et al. 2010. Monitoring the world’s agriculture. Nature 466: 558–560.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Picard, Fabienne, and Corinne Tanguy. 2016. Innovations and Techno-ecological Transition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Busemeyer, Jerome R., François Dubois, Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky, and Massimo Melucci, ed. 2012. Quantum Interaction: 6th International Symposium, QI 2012, Paris, France, June 27-29, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 7620. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hafner, Johann Ev. 2011. Hermann Grassmann’s theory of religion and faith. In From Past to Future: Graßmann’s Work in Context: Graßmann Bicentennial Conference, September 2009, ed. Hans-Joachim Petsche, Albert C. Lewis, Jörg Liesen, and Steve Russ, 37–47. Basel: 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 Feminist Legal Studies.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2015. Why Haven’t We Met Any Aliens Yet? IFLScience. IFLScience. September 18.

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. 2015. Women in STEM Research: Better Data and Information Sharing Could Improve Oversight of Federal Grant-making and Title IX Compliance. GAO-16-14. 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

Joseph, Wael R. 2002. Physical Characterization of Vernix Caseosa: Implications for Biological Function. Doctoral dissertation, Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.

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, Linda. 2007. Suffolk Schools to Say Goodbye to DARE. New York Times, November 25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guthrie 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Brei and Fish 2003; Guthrie 2003).

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

Two authors: (Brei and Fish 2003)
Three or more authors: (Sachs et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Feminist Legal Studies
Abbreviation	Fem. Leg. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0966-3622
ISSN (online)	1572-8455
Scope	Gender Studies