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

DiCicco-Bloom, Emanuel, ‘Neuroscience. Neuron, know thy neighbor’, 5767 Science 311 (2006), at 1560.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith, Eliot R and Mackie, Diane M, ‘Behavior. Surprising emotions’, 5911 Science 323 (2009), at 215.

A journal article with 3 authors

Creed, Meaghan, Pascoli, Vincent Jean, and Lüscher, Christian, ‘Addiction therapy. Refining deep brain stimulation to emulate optogenetic treatment of synaptic pathology’, 6222 Science 347 (2015), at 659.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lan, Fei et al, ‘Recognition of unmethylated histone H3 lysine 4 links BHC80 to LSD1-mediated gene repression’, 7154 Nature 448 (2007), at 718.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dimond, Bridgit, Legal Aspects of Mental Capacity (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008).

An edited book

Charney, Noah, Art Crime: Terrorists, Tomb Raiders, Forgers and Thieves (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016).

A chapter in an edited book

Helfert, Markus and Curley, Martin, ‘Design Science in Action: Researching and Developing the IT-CMF’, in Markus Helfert and Brian Donnellan (eds), Practical Aspects of Design Science: European Design Science Symposium, EDSS 2011, Leixlip, Ireland, October 14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012) 50–59.

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, ‘Cherry Concentrate Can Lower Blood Pressure As Much As Drugs, Our Study Finds’ (5 May 2016), IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cherry-concentrate-can-lower-blood-pressure-much-drugs-our-study-finds/ (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, IT Dashboard: Accuracy Has Improved, and Additional Efforts Are Under Way to Better Inform Decision Making, GAO-12-210 (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

Ionedes, Nancy Joanna, ‘An exploration of social interest therapy as a treatment for depression in the elderly’ (Doctoral dissertation available at Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2008).

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

Poniewozik, James, ‘Mom Started a Job, So Dad Is Nervous About All His New Responsibilities’, New York Times, 23 October 2016, C6.

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