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

Hernando, Eva. 2008. Cancer. Aneuploidy advantages? Science (New York, N.Y.) 322: 692–693.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zamore, Phillip D., and Benjamin Haley. 2005. Ribo-gnome: the big world of small RNAs. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309: 1519–1524.

A journal article with 3 authors

Runyon, Justin B., Mark C. Mescher, and Consuelo M. De Moraes. 2006. Volatile chemical cues guide host location and host selection by parasitic plants. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313: 1964–1967.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Marchitto, Thomas M., Scott J. Lehman, Joseph D. Ortiz, Jacqueline Flückiger, and Alexander van Geen. 2007. Marine radiocarbon evidence for the mechanism of deglacial atmospheric CO2 rise. Science (New York, N.Y.) 316: 1456–1459.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kukushkin, Alexander. 2004. Radio Wave Propagation in the Marine Boundary Layer. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Flores, Imer B., and Kenneth E. Himma, ed. 2013. Law, Liberty, and the Rule of Law. Vol. 18. Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Chriss, Neil, and Victor Ginzburg. 2010. Springer Theory for u (sln). In Representation Theory and Complex Geometry, ed. Victor Ginzburg, 193–230. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

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

Davis, Josh. 2015. The Builders Of Stonehenge Feasted On Barbecue Beef And Pork. IFLScience. IFLScience. October 15.

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. 2007. Public Transportation: Preliminary Analysis of Changes to and Trends in FTA’s New Starts and Small Starts Programs. GAO-07-812T. 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

Parihar, Robin. 2004. Characterization of the Natural Killer Cell Cytokine Response to Antibody-Coated Tumor Cells. Doctoral dissertation, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University.

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

Wagner, James. 2017. Reinvigorated Astros Finish a Sweep of the Mets. New York Times, September 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hernando 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Zamore and Haley 2005; Hernando 2008).

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

Two authors: (Zamore and Haley 2005)
Three or more authors: (Marchitto et al. 2007)

About the journal

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