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

Kiick, Kristi L. 2007. Materials science. Polymer therapeutics. Science (New York, N.Y.) 317: 1182–1183.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lewinsohn, Thomas M., and Luciano Cagnolo. 2012. Ecology. Keystones in a tangled bank. Science (New York, N.Y.) 335: 1449–1451.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martens, Joseph A., Lisa Laprade, and Fred Winston. 2004. Intergenic transcription is required to repress the Saccharomyces cerevisiae SER3 gene. Nature 429: 571–574.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kanadia, Rahul N., Karen A. Johnstone, Ami Mankodi, Codrin Lungu, Charles A. Thornton, Douglas Esson, Adrian M. Timmers, William W. Hauswirth, and Maurice S. Swanson. 2003. A muscleblind knockout model for myotonic dystrophy. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302: 1978–1980.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sellars, Carol. 2011. Risk Assessment in People with Learning Disabilities. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Shen, Baotang. 2014. Modelling Rock Fracturing Processes: A Fracture Mechanics Approach Using FRACOD. Edited by Ove Stephansson and Mikael Rinne. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Camenisch, Jan, Maria Dubovitskaya, Markulf Kohlweiss, Jorn Lapon, and Gregory Neven. 2011. Cryptographic Mechanisms for Privacy. In Privacy and Identity Management for Life, ed. Jan Camenisch, Simone Fischer-Hübner, and Kai Rannenberg, 117–134. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Luntz, Stephen. 2016. Plant-Eating Dinosaur Success Was In The Jaws. IFLScience. IFLScience. July 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. 2003. NASA: Shuttle Fleet’s Safe Return to Flight Is Key to Space Station Progress. GAO-04-201T. 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

Hakes, Cathy J. 2010. Off -campus work and its relationship to students’ experiences with faculty using the College Student Experiences Questionnaire. Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Johnson, Kirk. 2015. From Iraq to Oregon, a Global Lotto Jackpot. New York Times, December 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kiick 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Kiick 2007; Lewinsohn and Cagnolo 2012).

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

Two authors: (Lewinsohn and Cagnolo 2012)
Three or more authors: (Kanadia et al. 2003)

About the journal

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