How to format your references using the International Comparative Jurisprudence citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Comparative Jurisprudence. 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

Tammaro, P. (2009). Journal club. A physiologist notes the similarities between animal and plant electricity. Nature, 458(7234), 11.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pohrt, R., & Popov, V. L. (2013). Contact stiffness of randomly rough surfaces. Scientific Reports, 3, 3293.

A journal article with 3 authors

Quax, R., Kandhai, D., & Sloot, P. M. A. (2013). Information dissipation as an early-warning signal for the Lehman Brothers collapse in financial time series. Scientific Reports, 3, 1898.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Abraham, E. R., Law, C. S., Boyd, P. W., Lavender, S. J., Maldonado, M. T., & Bowie, A. R. (2000). Importance of stirring in the development of an iron-fertilized phytoplankton bloom. Nature, 407(6805), 727–730.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Posudin, Y. (2014). Methods of Measuring Environmental Parameters. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gallopoulos, E. (2016). Parallelism in Matrix Computations (B. Philippe & A. H. Sameh, Eds.; 1st ed. 2016). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Pehrson, L. (2009). Significance of the Prohibition of Discrimination on the Grounds of Nationality. In L. Pehrson, L. Oxelheim, & S. Gustavsson (Eds.), How Unified Is the European Union?: European Integration Between Visions and Popular Legitimacy (pp. 43–60). Springer.

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 International Comparative Jurisprudence.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 26). DARPA Wants to Genetically Engineer Organisms to Terraform Mars. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/darpa-wants-terraform-mars/

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. (1978). Productivity, Science and Technology: Keys to U.S. Economic Growth (105610). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Newcomb, S. (2009). Reliability of the CVI range: A functional vision assessment for children with cortical visual impairment [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2005, November 2). Supreme Court Could Hear An Alito Case. New York Times, A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tammaro, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Pohrt & Popov, 2013; Tammaro, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Pohrt & Popov, 2013)
Three authors: (Quax et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Abraham et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Comparative Jurisprudence
Abbreviation	Int. Comp. Jurisprud.
ISSN (print)	2351-6674
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