How to format your references using the Human Rights Law Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Human Rights Law Review (HRLR). 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	Download the output style file
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

Li, Ge, ‘On the Safety of ITER Accelerators’ (2013) 3 Scientific reports 2602

A journal article with 2 authors

Rauschenberger, R and S Yantis, ‘Masking Unveils Pre-Amodal Completion Representation in Visual Search’ (2001) 410(6826) Nature 369

A journal article with 3 authors

Oliet, SH, R Piet and DA Poulain, ‘Control of Glutamate Clearance and Synaptic Efficacy by Glial Coverage of Neurons’ (2001) 292(5518) Science (New York, N.Y.) 923

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Anandakrishnan, Sridhar et al, ‘Discovery of till Deposition at the Grounding Line of Whillans Ice Stream’ (2007) 315(5820) Science (New York, N.Y.) 1835

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Storey, Ian C and Arlene Allan, A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama (2008)

An edited book

Pointcheval, David, Yi Mu and Kefei Chen (eds), Cryptology and Network Security: 5th International Conference, CANS 2006, Suzhou, China, December 8-10, 2006. Proceedings (2006) vol 4301

A chapter in an edited book

Chraim, Fabien and Kristofer Pister, ‘Smart Fence: Decentralized Sequential Hypothesis Testing for Perimeter Security’ in Zuniga and Dini (eds), Sensor Systems and Software: 4th International ICST Conference, S-Cube 2013, Lucca, Italy, June 11-12, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (2013) 65

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 Human Rights Law Review.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise, ‘Two Independent Studies Find Epigenetic Changes In Brains Of Alzheimer’s Patients’, IFLScience, 18 August 2014, available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/two-independent-studies-find-epigenetic-changes-brains-alzheimers-patients/ [last accessed 30 October 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, Native Hawaiian Education Act: Greater Oversight Would Increase Accountability and Enable Targeting of Funds to Areas with Greatest Need, U.S. Government Printing Office, 25 March 2008, GAO-08-422, 25 March 2008

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Do, Nghia Huy, An Examination of Support Systems to Enable Vietnamese Immigrants to Acquire English Skills (Doctoral dissertation, 2012)

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

Kishkovsky, Sophia, ‘Moscow: Art For Sale’ New York Times, 2 June 2004 E2

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Human Rights Law Review
ISSN (print)	1461-7781
ISSN (online)	1744-1021
Scope