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

Grinnell, Frederick. “Rethink Our Approach to Assessing Risk.” Nature 522, no. 7556 (June 18, 2015): 257.

A journal article with 2 authors

Castanotto, Daniela, and John J. Rossi. “The Promises and Pitfalls of RNA-Interference-Based Therapeutics.” Nature 457, no. 7228 (January 22, 2009): 426–33.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nasrallah, Mikhail E., Pei Liu, and June B. Nasrallah. “Generation of Self-Incompatible Arabidopsis Thaliana by Transfer of Two S Locus Genes from A. Lyrata.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 297, no. 5579 (July 12, 2002): 247–49.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Long, John A., Gavin C. Young, Tim Holland, Tim J. Senden, and Erich M. G. Fitzgerald. “An Exceptional Devonian Fish from Australia Sheds Light on Tetrapod Origins.” Nature 444, no. 7116 (November 9, 2006): 199–202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hao, Liang, and Jonathan Lawrence. Laser Surface Treatment of Bio-Implant Materials. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2006.

An edited book

Turnbull, James. Pro Linux System Administration. Edited by Peter Lieverdink and Dennis Matotek. Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Herrera, Fernando, and Eugenio Villar. “Mixing Synchronous Reactive and Untimed MoCs in SystemC.” In Applications of Specification and Design Languages for SoCs: Selected Papers from FDL 2005, edited by A. Vachoux, 61–81. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2006.

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

Davis, Josh. “Modern HIV Drugs Give Young People ‘Near Normal’ Life Expectancy.” IFLScience. IFLScience, May 11, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/modern-hiv-drugs-give-young-people-near-normal-life-expectancy/.

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. “Evaluation of NASA Comments on Consolidated Space Operations Center.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, August 12, 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Darwich, Mahmoud K. “Cost-Efficient Video On Demand (VOD) Streaming Using Cloud Services.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 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

Southall, Ashley. “Police Ease Rules on Beards and Turbans for Religious Officers.” New York Times, December 29, 2016.

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