How to format your references using the Journal of International Economic Law citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of International Economic 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

Alonzo, Suzanne H, ‘Evolution. An unexpected cost of sex’, 6225 Science 347 (2015), at 948.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gantz, Valentino M and Bier, Ethan, ‘Genome editing. The mutagenic chain reaction: a method for converting heterozygous to homozygous mutations’, 6233 Science 348 (2015), at 442.

A journal article with 3 authors

Loudet, J C, Barois, P, and Poulin, P, ‘Colloidal ordering from phase separation in a liquid-crystalline continuous phase’, 6804 Nature 407 (2000), at 611.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Parfitt, Simon A et al, ‘Early Pleistocene human occupation at the edge of the boreal zone in northwest Europe’, 7303 Nature 466 (2010), at 229.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El-Haik, Basem and Roy, David M, Service Design for Six Sigma (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005).

An edited book

Mahrwald, Rainer, Enantioselective Organocatalyzed Reactions II: Asymmetric C-C Bond Formation Processes (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011).

A chapter in an edited book

Kearney, Alison, ‘How are Disabled Students Excluded from and Within School’, in Alison Kearney (ed), Exclusion from and Within School: Issues and Solutions (Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2011) 79–91.

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 International Economic Law.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise, ‘Why You Should Always Shake Hands With A Robot’ (17 May 2015), IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/technology/why-you-should-always-shake-hands-robot/ (visited 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, Commercial Space Transportation: Industry Trends and Key Issues Affecting Federal Oversight and International Competitiveness, GAO-11-629T (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2011).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Duncan, Kirk F, ‘Middle school teachers’ self-perceptions of response to intervention’ (Doctoral dissertation available at Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2016).

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

McKINLEY, James C, Jr, ‘Prosecutors Drop Charges Against a Bronx Teenager’, New York Times, 6 September 2017, A20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of International Economic Law
Abbreviation	J. Int. Econ. Law
ISSN (print)	1369-3034
Scope	Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Law