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

Gupta, S. 2014. “Skin colour: no hiding in the dark.” Nature, 515 (7527): S121-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tosatti, E., and S. Prestipino. 2000. “MATERIALS SCIENCE: Weird Gold Nanowires.” Science, 289 (5479): 561–563.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moseley, R. L., F. Pulvermüller, and Y. Shtyrov. 2013. “Sensorimotor semantics on the spot: brain activity dissociates between conceptual categories within 150 ms.” Sci. Rep., 3: 1928.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sigel, R., G. Fytas, N. Vainos, S. Pispas, and N. Hadjichristidis. 2002. “Pattern formation in homogeneous polymer solutions induced by a continuous-wave visible laser.” Science, 297 (5578): 67–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pérez, A. 2013. Mobile Networks Architecture. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cotta, C., S. Reich, R. Schaefer, and A. Ligęza (Eds.). 2008. Knowledge-Driven Computing: Knowledge Engineering and Intelligent Computations. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hungerford, C., and P. Kench. 2015. “Standards and Standardization.” Practice-based Learning in Higher Education: Jostling Cultures, Professional and Practice-based Learning, M. Kennedy, S. Billett, S. Gherardi, and L. Grealish, eds., 65–83. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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, E. 2015. “Poo Transplants Can Eliminate Two Superbugs From The Gut: Mice Study.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/poo-transplants-can-eliminate-two-superbugs-gut-mice-study/.

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. Automated Systems: The Auditor’s Role. 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

Wang, E. 2017. “Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility Investigation of the Coyote Mountain Shear Zone.” Doctoral dissertation. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Williams, J. 2017. “Carson McCullers at 100.” New York Times, March 3, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gupta 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gupta 2014; Tosatti and Prestipino 2000).

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

Two authors: (Tosatti and Prestipino 2000)
Three or more authors: (Sigel et al. 2002)

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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