How to format your references using the German Yearbook of International Law citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for German Yearbook of International Law (GYIL). 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

Cook-Deegan, 'Public Health. Boosting Health Services Research', 333 Science (New York, N.Y.) (2011) 1384.

A journal article with 2 authors

Navarro and Barton, 'Chromosomal Speciation and Molecular Divergence--Accelerated Evolution in Rearranged Chromosomes', 300 Science (New York, N.Y.) (2003) 321.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wuchty, Jones, and Uzzi, 'The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge', 316 Science (New York, N.Y.) (2007) 1036.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sánchez-Lavega et al., 'A Strong Decrease in Saturn’s Equatorial Jet at Cloud Level', 423 Nature (2003) 623.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gunn David M., Judges (2016).

An edited book

Kim Joseph and Garcia-Aguilar Julio (eds.), Surgery for Cancers of the Gastrointestinal Tract: A Step-by-Step Approach (2015).

A chapter in an edited book

Cherry, 'Recognition and Management of Encephalitis in Children', in Adam Finn, Nigel Curtis and Andrew J. Pollard (eds.), Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Children V (2009) 53.

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 German Yearbook of International Law.

Blog post

Luntz Stephen, How Wall Street Destroyed America’s Solar Industry, 29 March 2017, IFLScience, available at https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-wall-street-destroyed-americas-solar-industry/.

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, Commercial Aviation: Potential Safety and Capacity Issues Associated with the Introduction of the New A380 Aircraft, GAO-07-483 (2007).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cuthbertson Thomas H., 'The Fool’s Replies: Toward a Poetics of Folly in Shakespeare’s Comedies' (2014) (Doctoral dissertation thesis, available at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN).

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

Hollander, 'A Sisterhood Lays a Foundation in Football', New York Times (2008) D2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	German Yearbook of International Law
ISSN (print)	0344-3094
Scope