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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Rauchway, Eric. “Recession Watch: Work for the Greater Good.” Nature 457, no. 7232 (February 19, 2009): 959–60.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hussain, Natasha K., and Morgan Sheng. “Neuroscience. Making Synapses: A Balancing Act.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 307, no. 5713 (February 25, 2005): 1207–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Menz, Myles H. M., Kingsley W. Dixon, and Richard J. Hobbs. “Ecology. Hurdles and Opportunities for Landscape-Scale Restoration.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 339, no. 6119 (February 1, 2013): 526–27.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rosenberg, E. S., M. Altfeld, S. H. Poon, M. N. Phillips, B. M. Wilkes, R. L. Eldridge, G. K. Robbins, R. T. D’Aquila, P. J. Goulder, and B. D. Walker. “Immune Control of HIV-1 after Early Treatment of Acute Infection.” Nature 407, no. 6803 (September 28, 2000): 523–26.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maré, Jean-Charles. Aerospace Actuators 1. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

Tsikalas, Filippos, Henning Dypvik, and Morten Smelror, eds. The Mjølnir Impact Event and Its Consequences: Geology and Geophysics of a Late Jurassic/Early Cretaceous Marine Impact Event. Impact Studies. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Wen, Lei, Hong-Ze Luo, Guang-Yin Liu, and Hai-Tao Zheng. “Nanostructured Lithium Titanates (Li4Ti5O12) for Lithium-Ion Batteries.” In Nanomaterials in Advanced Batteries and Supercapacitors, edited by Kenneth I. Ozoemena and Shaowei Chen, 127–69. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

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

Andrew, Elise. “Insect Exoskeleton Shedding Is Like Having Your Lungs Torn Out.” IFLScience. IFLScience, September 1, 2014.

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. “Unmanned Vehicles: Assessment of DOD’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Master Plan.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, December 9, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Casco, Darlene. “Consonance: An Inter Play of Music and Design to Evoke Curiosity and Awareness of Our Musical Identity.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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

Hodgman, John. “Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman.” New York Times, January 20, 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