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

Lander, A. D. (2013). How cells know where they are. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6122), 923–927.

A journal article with 2 authors

Leeb, M., & Wutz, A. (2011). Derivation of haploid embryonic stem cells from mouse embryos. Nature, 479(7371), 131–134.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mizukami, T., Wallis, S. R., & Yamamoto, J. (2004). Natural examples of olivine lattice preferred orientation patterns with a flow-normal a-axis maximum. Nature, 427(6973), 432–436.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hoffmeister, K. M., Josefsson, E. C., Isaac, N. A., Clausen, H., Hartwig, J. H., & Stossel, T. P. (2003). Glycosylation restores survival of chilled blood platelets. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5639), 1531–1534.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crane, L. (2015). Knowledge and Discourse Matters. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wang, Z. (2014). Simultaneous Multi-Pollutants Removal in Flue Gas by Ozone (K. Cen, J. Zhou, & J. Fan, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Banach, R. (2008). Model Based Refinement and the Tools of Tomorrow. In E. Börger, M. Butler, J. P. Bowen, & P. Boca (Eds.), Abstract State Machines, B and Z: First International Conference, ABZ 2008, London, UK, September 16-18, 2008. Proceedings (pp. 42–56). 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, July 31). Watch A Colorblind Man See The World In Color For The First Time. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1980). First Look at Senior Executive Service Performance Awards (FPCD-80-74). 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

Tyler, E. P. (2013). Tectonic geomorphology of quaternary river terraces at Santa Cruz Creek, Santa Maria Basin, Santa Barbara County, California [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Rich, N. (2013, February 28). Just Roll, Baby. New York Times, MM24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lander, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Lander, 2013; Leeb & Wutz, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Leeb & Wutz, 2011)
Three authors: (Mizukami et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Hoffmeister et al., 2003)

About the journal

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