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

E. Rauchway,

‘Recession Watch: Work for the greater good’, Nature, 457, 2009, 959–960.

A journal article with 2 authors

R. Benedito and R. H. Adams,

‘Development. Aorta’s cardinal secret’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 326, 2009, 242–243.

A journal article with 3 authors

W. Junge, H. Sielaff and S. Engelbrecht,

‘Torque generation and elastic power transmission in the rotary F(O)F(1)-ATPase’, Nature, 459, 2009, 364–370.

A journal article with 31 or more authors

W. Xie, J. L. Barwick, M. Downes, B. Blumberg, C. M. Simon, M. C. Nelson, B. A. Neuschwander-Tetri, E. M. Brunt, P. S. Guzelian and R. M. Evans,

‘Humanized xenobiotic response in mice expressing nuclear receptor SXR’, Nature, 406, 2000, 435–439.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

S. Gardner and S. Birley,

Blogging for Dummies® (Wiley Publishing, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010).

An edited book

M. Kurosu (ed.),

Human-Computer Interaction: Users and Contexts: 17th International Conference, HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings, Part III (Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015), p. XVII, 566 p. 189 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

K. M. Rabe and P. Ghosez,

‘First-Principles Studies of Ferroelectric Oxides’, in K. M. Rabe, C. H. Ahn and J.-M. Triscone (eds), Physics of Ferroelectrics: A Modern Perspective (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007), pp. 117–174.

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. Fang,

Is There Actually One Rat for Every Person in New York?, IFLScience, 2014. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/there-actually-one-rat-every-person-new-york/. [Accessed: 30-Oct-2018].

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,

Manufacturing Extension Partnership: Most Federal Spending Directly Supports Work with Manufacturers, but Distribution Could Be Improved (U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2014).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

T. D. Chalmers,

The social context of advertising: Authenticity, social identity, and reflected appraisals (Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2009).

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

J. Risen,

‘What Cold War Intrigue Can Tell Us About the Trump-Russia Inquiry’, New York Times, 2017, A20.

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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