How to format your references using the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hague Journal on the Rule of Law. 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

Chandler D (2005) Interfaces and the driving force of hydrophobic assembly. Nature 437:640–647

A journal article with 2 authors

Faden RR, Karron RA (2012) Public health and biosecurity. The obligation to prevent the next dual-use controversy. Science 335:802–804

A journal article with 3 authors

Krauss LM, Dodelson S, Meyer S (2010) Primordial gravitational waves and cosmology. Science 328:989–992

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang Z, Xiao F, Xi J, et al (2014) Encapsulating Pd nanoparticles in double-shelled graphene@carbon hollow spheres for excellent chemical catalytic property. Sci Rep 4:4053

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang J, Wang Q (2012) Body Area Communications. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Herbig T (2011) Self-Learning Speaker Identification: A System for Enhanced Speech Recognition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Elias B, Sester M (2006) Incorporating Landmarks with Quality Measures in Routing Procedures. In: Raubal M, Miller HJ, Frank AU, Goodchild MF (eds) Geographic Information Science: 4th International Conference, GIScience 2006, Münster, Germany, September 20-23, 2006. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 65–80

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 Hague Journal on the Rule of Law.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Pizzlies and Other Hybrids Won’t Become More Common With Climate Change. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pizzlies-and-other-hybrids-wont-become-more-common-climate-change/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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) Property Management: Lack of Accountability and Weak Internal Controls Leave NASA Equipment Vulnerable to Loss, Theft, and Misuse. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McClain R (2009) The role of spirituality/religiosity in the lives of people who are hearing impaired. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kolomatsky M (2017) How Much You Need to Make. New York Times RE2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chandler 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Chandler 2005; Faden and Karron 2012).

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

Two authors: (Faden and Karron 2012)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Hague Journal on the Rule of Law
ISSN (print)	1876-4045
ISSN (online)	1876-4053
Scope	Law