How to format your references using the First Amendment Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for First Amendment 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	Download the output style file
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

Burns, Joseph A. “Solar System: Ring in the New.” Nature 508, no. 7494 (April 3, 2014): 48–49.

A journal article with 2 authors

Warneken, Felix, and Michael Tomasello. “Altruistic Helping in Human Infants and Young Chimpanzees.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 311, no. 5765 (March 3, 2006): 1301–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shepherd, D. S., M. J. Claussen, and S. E. Kurtz. “Evidence for a Solar System-Size Accretion Disk around the Massive Protostar G192.16-3.82.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 292, no. 5521 (May 25, 2001): 1513–18.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Jia, Huijuan, Wanping Aw, Kenji Saito, Manaka Hanate, Yukio Hasebe, and Hisanori Kato. “Eggshell Membrane Ameliorates Hepatic Fibrogenesis in Human C3A Cells and Rats through Changes in PPARγ-Endothelin 1 Signaling.” Scientific Reports 4 (December 15, 2014): 7473.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McLaughlin, Thomas A. Nonprofit Mergers and Alliances. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Kobayashi, Toshiyuki, Wilfried Schmid, and Jae-Hyun Yang, eds. Representation Theory and Automorphic Forms. Vol. 255. Progress in Mathematics. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Cremaschi, Mauro, and Andrea Zerboni. “Human Communities in a Drying Landscape: Holocene Climate Change and Cultural Response in the Central Sahara.” In Landscapes and Societies: Selected Cases, edited by I. Peter Martini and Ward Chesworth, 67–89. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011.

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 First Amendment Studies.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. “Interstellar Round Trip Could Return Samples From Earth-Like Exoplanet In 300 Years.” IFLScience. IFLScience, February 1, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/interstellar-round-trip-could-return-samples-from-earthlike-exoplanet-in-300-years/.

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. “Human Resources Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, October 1, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Patel, Dhwani S. “GoSchoolPro: A Web Portal for the Students Using MVC Architecture and ASP.NET Framework.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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

Kerry, John. “What We Got Right.” New York Times, January 19, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	First Amendment Studies
Abbreviation	First Amend. Stud.
ISSN (print)	2168-9725
ISSN (online)	2168-9733
Scope	Law Sociology and Political Science Communication