How to format your references using the Journal of Human Rights citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Human Rights. 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

STROM, Suzanne L. (2008). Microbial ecology of ocean biogeochemistry: a community perspective. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5879), 1043–1045.

A journal article with 2 authors

PÖRTNER, Hans O., and FARRELL, Anthony P. (2008). Ecology. Physiology and climate change. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5902), 690–692.

A journal article with 3 authors

HAO, Xiang, MARTIN-ROUAULT, Laure, and CUI, Meng. (2014). A self-adaptive method for creating high efficiency communication channels through random scattering media. Scientific reports, 4, 5874.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

BARFORD, C. C., WOFSY, S. C., GOULDEN, M. L., MUNGER, J. W., PYLE, E. H., URBANSKI, S. P., HUTYRA, L., SALESKA, S. R., FITZJARRALD, D., and MOORE, K. (2001). Factors controlling long- and short-term sequestration of atmospheric CO2 in a mid-latitude forest. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5547), 1688–1691.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

BARNES, Peter. (2008). The JCT 05 Standard Building Sub-Contract. (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd).

An edited book

MUJIB, A. (ed.). (2016). Somatic Embryogenesis in Ornamentals and Its Applications. 1st ed. 2016, (New Delhi: Springer India).

A chapter in an edited book

BEYERSDORF, Frank. (2016). First Professional International: FIJ (1926–40) In A History of the International Movement of Journalists: Professionalism Versus Politics, Ulf Jonas Björk, Frank Beyersdorf, Svennik Høyer, Epp Lauk (eds.) (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK).

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 Journal of Human Rights.

Blog post

ANDREW, Elise. (2014). Anomalous Great Basin Climate Record Resolved. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/anomalous-great-basin-climate-record-resolved/ [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. (1977). Organizational Structure and Information Systems Used To Manage the Army’s Depot-Level Maintenance Programs No. 103401 (Washington, DC: 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

MCGARY, Jessica. (2012). Gender and the poverty-conflict trap. Doctoral dissertation. (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona).

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

MARKOFF, John. (2016). Exploring the Sea, No Sailors Needed. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Strom 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Pörtner and Farrell 2008; Strom 2008).

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

Two authors: (Pörtner and Farrell 2008)
Three authors: (Hao, Martin-Rouault, and Cui 2014)
4 or more authors: (Barford et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Human Rights
ISSN (print)	1475-4835
ISSN (online)	1475-4843
Scope