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

Chapman T (2004) Proteins on the move. Nature 430:111

A journal article with 2 authors

Koppers AAP, Staudigel H (2005) Asynchronous bends in Pacific seamount trails: a case for extensional volcanism? Science 307:904–907

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaloni TP, Tahir M, Schwingenschlögl U (2013) Quasi free-standing silicene in a superlattice with hexagonal boron nitride. Sci Rep 3:3192

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Larson DR, Zipfel WR, Williams RM, et al (2003) Water-soluble quantum dots for multiphoton fluorescence imaging in vivo. Science 300:1434–1436

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jamison DC (2005) Perl Programming for Biologists. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Crutzen PJ, Brauch HG (eds) (2016) Paul J. Crutzen: A Pioneer on Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Change in the Anthropocene. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Jellis C (2015) Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease: Prolapse and Flail. In: Desai M, Jellis C, Yingchoncharoen T (eds) An Atlas of Mitral Valve Imaging. Springer, London, pp 43–67

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

Andrew E (2015) ‘Climate Hacking’ Would Be Easy – That Doesn’t Mean We Should Do It. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/climate-hacking-would-be-easy-doesn-t-mean-we-should-do-it/. 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 (1988) The Fight Against Infant Mortality. 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

Chanderbhan-Forde S (2010) Asian Indian mothers’ involvement in their children’s schooling: An analysis of social and cultural capital. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Saslow L (2007) Nation’s ‘First Suburb’ Aims to Be Most ‘Green.’ New York Times 14LI6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chapman 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Chapman 2004; Koppers and Staudigel 2005).

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

Two authors: (Koppers and Staudigel 2005)
Three or more authors: (Larson et al. 2003)

About the journal

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