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

Szoka F (2008) Molecular biology. The art of assembly. Science 319:578–579

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang T, Shadlen MN (2007) Probabilistic reasoning by neurons. Nature 447:1075–1080

A journal article with 3 authors

Beaber JW, Hochhut B, Waldor MK (2004) SOS response promotes horizontal dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes. Nature 427:72–74

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liang X, Zhao J, Dong L, Xu K (2013) Unraveling the origin of exponential law in intra-urban human mobility. Sci Rep 3:2983

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoskins BJ, James IN (2014) Fluid Dynamics of the Midlatitude Atmosphere. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester

An edited book

Lamattina L, García-Mata C (eds) (2016) Gasotransmitters in Plants: The Rise of a New Paradigm in Cell Signaling. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ahmed M, Singh VK, Upadhyay RS (2012) Brassica Rhizosphere-Microbe Interactions and Their Role in Phytoremediation. In: Anjum NA, Ahmad I, Pereira ME, et al. (eds) The Plant Family Brassicaceae: Contribution Towards Phytoremediation. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 139–152

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 (2014) Doctors have cleared second baby of HIV. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/doctors-have-cleared-second-baby-hiv/. 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 (1999) Technology Transfer: Number and Characteristics of Inventions Licensed by Six Federal Agencies. 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

Zanulabe Din MO (2017) Engineered Synchrony of Bacterial Lysis and its Applications. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Burghardt LF (2005) With Emphasis on Safety, Playgrounds Aren’t for All. New York Times 14LI1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Szoka 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Yang and Shadlen 2007; Szoka 2008).

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

Two authors: (Yang and Shadlen 2007)
Three or more authors: (Liang et al. 2013)

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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