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

Walton KS (2015) Inorganic chemistry: Movies of a growth mechanism. Nature 523:535–536

A journal article with 2 authors

Kippenberg TJ, Vahala KJ (2008) Cavity optomechanics: back-action at the mesoscale. Science 321:1172–1176

A journal article with 3 authors

Pronin SV, Reiher CA, Shenvi RA (2013) Stereoinversion of tertiary alcohols to tertiary-alkyl isonitriles and amines. Nature 501:195–199

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yu J-K, Satou Y, Holland ND, et al (2007) Axial patterning in cephalochordates and the evolution of the organizer. Nature 445:613–617

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McSween TE (2005) Values-Based Safety Process. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Carneiro R, Lefrere P, Steffens K, Underwood J (eds) (2011) Self-Regulated Learning in Technology Enhanced Learning Environments: A European Perspective. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Curbera GP, Ricker WJ (2007) Vector Measures, Integration and Applications. In: Boulabiar K, Buskes G, Triki A (eds) Positivity. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp 127–160

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 D (2015) How Much Water Would It Take To Extinguish The Sun? In: IFLScience. 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 (2002) Air Force Aircraft: Preliminary Information on Air Force Tanker Leasing. 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

Locicero LM (2014) The Effects of Vertical Casting Position in Reinforced Concrete. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Williams J (2017) Learning About His Subjects, and Himself. New York Times C6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walton 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kippenberg and Vahala 2008; Walton 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kippenberg and Vahala 2008)
Three or more authors: (Yu et al. 2007)

About the journal

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

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