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

Crame, J. Alistair. 2009. Evolution. Time’s stamp on modern biogeography. Science (New York, N.Y.) 323: 720–721.

A journal article with 2 authors

Min, Jung-Hyun, and Nikola P. Pavletich. 2007. Recognition of DNA damage by the Rad4 nucleotide excision repair protein. Nature 449: 570–575.

A journal article with 3 authors

Anderson, Greg, Brad Aagaard, and Ken Hudnut. 2003. Fault interactions and large complex earthquakes in the Los Angeles area. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302: 1946–1949.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Smith, Martin D., Cathy A. Roheim, Larry B. Crowder, Benjamin S. Halpern, Mary Turnipseed, James L. Anderson, Frank Asche, et al. 2010. Economics. Sustainability and global seafood. Science (New York, N.Y.) 327: 784–786.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smeets, René, Lou van der Sluis, Mirsad Kapetanović, David F. Peelo, and Anton Janssen. 2014. Switching in Electrical Transmission and Distribution Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Perner, Petra, ed. 2016. Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition: 12th International Conference, MLDM 2016, New York, NY, USA, July 16-21, 2016, Proceedings. Vol. 9729. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Gjedde, Albert, William R. Bauer, and Dean F. Wong. 2011. Blood–Brain Transfer and Metabolism of Oxygen. In Neurokinetics: The Dynamics of Neurobiology in Vivo, ed. William R. Bauer and Dean F. Wong, 153–176. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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

Andrew, Elise. 2014. 10 Weirdest Species of Shark. IFLScience. IFLScience. August 15.

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. Motor Carrier Safety: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Has Developed a Reasonable Framework for Managing and Testing Its Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 Initiative. GAO-08-242R. 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

Laffier, Jennifer. 2015. A qualitative evaluation of the role of artistic expression in psychological empowerment of bullying victims. Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral University.

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

Wagner, James. 2016. Mets’ Hobbled Rotation Takes Another Big Hit Before a Loss to the Nationals. New York Times, September 3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crame 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Min and Pavletich 2007; Crame 2009).

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

Two authors: (Min and Pavletich 2007)
Three or more authors: (Smith 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