How to format your references using the Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction. 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

Scodeggio, M. 2001. “Astronomy. Toward resolving the mystery of galaxy formation.” Science, 294 (5542): 537–538.

A journal article with 2 authors

Freedman, D. J., and J. A. Assad. 2006. “Experience-dependent representation of visual categories in parietal cortex.” Nature, 443 (7107): 85–88.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vokrouhlický, D., D. Nesvorný, and W. F. Bottke. 2003. “The vector alignments of asteroid spins by thermal torques.” Nature, 425 (6954): 147–151.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bushnell, D. A., K. D. Westover, R. E. Davis, and R. D. Kornberg. 2004. “Structural basis of transcription: an RNA polymerase II-TFIIB cocrystal at 4.5 Angstroms.” Science, 303 (5660): 983–988.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dacey, J. S., M. D. Mack, and L. B. Fiore. 2016. Your Anxious Child. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Haim, A. 2013. Light Pollution as a New Risk Factor for Human Breast and Prostate Cancers. (B. A. Portnov, ed.). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Yeldan, A. E. 2016. “Great Recession and Beyond: Revisiting the Pillars of Economic Thought.” Contemporary Issues in Macroeconomics: Lessons from The Crisis and Beyond, J. E. Stiglitz and M. Guzman, eds., 34–41. 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 Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction.

Blog post

Andrew, D. 2017. “Drugs From Bugs: The Next Blockbuster Medicine Could Be Lurking Inside An Insect.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 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. 1988. DOT Airline Industry Oversight. 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

Ratliff, D. J. 2009. “Teen parenting curriculum: A grant proposal project.” Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA: 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

Hubbard, B. 2017. “Saudi Arabia Restores Salaries and Bonuses Amid Grumbling.” New York Times, April 23, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scodeggio 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Freedman and Assad 2006; Scodeggio 2001).

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

Two authors: (Freedman and Assad 2006)
Three or more authors: (Bushnell et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction
ISSN (print)	1943-4162
ISSN (online)	1943-4170
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