How to format your references using the Law, Culture and the Humanities citation style

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

D. Hilton,

‘Donald Metcalf (1929-2014)’, Nature, 517, 2015, 554.

A journal article with 2 authors

P. Fromherz and M. Voelker,

‘Comment on “Detection, stimulation, and inhibition of neuronal signals with high-density nanowire transistor arrays”’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 323, 2009, 1429; author reply 1429.

A journal article with 3 authors

A. C. Clement, R. Burgman and J. R. Norris,

‘Observational and model evidence for positive low-level cloud feedback’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 325, 2009, 460–464.

A journal article with 31 or more authors

H. Song, Y. Kim, Y. H. Jang, H. Jeong, M. A. Reed and T. Lee,

‘Observation of molecular orbital gating’, Nature, 462, 2009, 1039–1043.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

M. Cannataro and P. H. Guzzi,

Data Management of Protein Interaction Networks (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2011).

An edited book

N.-G. Park, M. Grätzel and T. Miyasaka (eds.),

Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskite Photovoltaics: From Fundamentals to Device Architectures (Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016), p. VIII, 366 p. 217 illus., 192 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

A. I. Ban, A. A. Bica and L. Coroianu,

‘Metric Properties of the Extended Weighted Semi-trapezoidal Approximations of Fuzzy Numbers and Their Applications’, in S. Greco, B. Bouchon-Meunier, G. Coletti, M. Fedrizzi, B. Matarazzo and R. R. Yager (eds), Advances in Computational Intelligence: 14th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2012, Catania, Italy, July 9-13, 2012, Proceedings, Part III (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012), pp. 29–38.

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, Culture and the Humanities.

Blog post

J. O`Callaghan,

Scientists Just Dealt A Major Blow To The Search For Life, IFLScience, 2017.

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,

Social Security Administration: Cases of Federal Employees and Transportation Drivers and Owners Who Fraudulently and/or Improperly Received SSA Benefits (U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2010).

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

S. Hutter-Thomas,

Sociocultural Evolution: An Examination of Unorthodox Elective Body Modification (Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2017).

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

M. Billard,

‘A Closet Is the Highest Form of Flattery’, New York Times, 2014, E8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Law, Culture and the Humanities
ISSN (print)	1743-8721
ISSN (online)	1743-9752
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