How to format your references using the Law and Critique citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Law and Critique. 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

Goldston, David. 2007. Technical advice. Nature 448: 119.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carlton, Jez G., and Juan Martin-Serrano. 2007. Parallels between cytokinesis and retroviral budding: a role for the ESCRT machinery. Science (New York, N.Y.) 316: 1908–1912.

A journal article with 3 authors

Waghmare, Prashant R., Naga Siva Kumar Gunda, and Sushanta K. Mitra. 2014. Under-water superoleophobicity of fish scales. Scientific reports 4: 7454.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Qi, Yijun, Xingyue He, Xiu-Jie Wang, Oleksiy Kohany, Jerzy Jurka, and Gregory J. Hannon. 2006. Distinct catalytic and non-catalytic roles of ARGONAUTE4 in RNA-directed DNA methylation. Nature 443: 1008–1012.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sobel, Andrew. 2009. All for One. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

VanDerwarker, Amber M., and Gregory D. Wilson, ed. 2016. The Archaeology of Food and Warfare: Food Insecurity in Prehistory. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Huber, Bernd. 2016. The Role of Universities in Society. In Matching Visibility and Performance: A Standing Challenge for World-Class Universities, ed. Nian Cai Liu, Ying Cheng, and Qi Wang, 91–99. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

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 Law and Critique.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2017. New “Natural Disasters” Report Reveals Billions Of People Worldwide At Risk. IFLScience. IFLScience. May 26.

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. 2017. Tribal Transportation: Better Data Could Improve Road Management and Inform Indian Student Attendance Strategies. GAO-17-423. 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

Trichon, Mitchell C. 2010. Self-Help Conferences for People Who Stutter: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. 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, John. 2017. A Love of Science Fiction Collides With a Classic. New York Times, September 3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Carlton and Martin-Serrano 2007; Goldston 2007).

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

Two authors: (Carlton and Martin-Serrano 2007)
Three or more authors: (Qi et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Law and Critique
Abbreviation	Law Crit.
ISSN (print)	0957-8536
ISSN (online)	1572-8617
Scope	Law