How to format your references using the Law, Technology and Humans citation style

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

Yutzey, Katherine E. “Regenerative Biology: Neuregulin 1 Makes Heart Muscle.” Nature 520, no. 7548 (April 23, 2015): 445–46.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pienitz, R., and W. F. Vincent. “Effect of Climate Change Relative to Ozone Depletion on UV Exposure in Subarctic Lakes.” Nature 404, no. 6777 (March 30, 2000): 484–87.

A journal article with 3 authors

Häkkinen, Sirpa, Peter B. Rhines, and Denise L. Worthen. “Atmospheric Blocking and Atlantic Multidecadal Ocean Variability.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 334, no. 6056 (November 4, 2011): 655–59.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Cheng, Meng, Wenhua Xie, Baoning Zong, Bo Sun, and Minghua Qiao. “When Magnetic Catalyst Meets Magnetic Reactor: Etherification of FCC Light Gasoline as an Example.” Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 1973.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chandrasekaran, Srinivasan. Health, Safety, and Environmental Management in Offshore and Petroleum Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016.

An edited book

Lipp, Peter, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, and Klaus-Michael Koch, eds. Trusted Computing - Challenges and Applications: First International Conference on Trusted Computing and Trust in Information Technologies, Trust 2008 Villach, Austria, March 11-12, 2008 Proceedings. Vol. 4968. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Simons, Elwyn. “Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark.” In Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins, edited by John G. Fleagle and Christopher C. Gilbert, 35–40. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. New York, NY: Springer, 2008.

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, Technology and Humans.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. “Subway’s ‘Chicken’ Contains Just 50 Percent Chicken DNA, Says Investigation.” IFLScience. IFLScience, February 27, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/subways-chicken-contains-just-50-percent-chicken-dna-says-investigation/.

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. “Maritime Administration: Weaknesses Identified in Management of the Title XI Loan Guarantee Program.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, May 15, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hartley, Daniel Leclair. “Transnational Jazz and Blues: Aural Aesthetics and African Diasporic Fiction.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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

Kenigsberg, Ben. “After 2008, Picking On the Little Guy.” New York Times, May 18, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Law, Technology and Humans
ISSN (online)	2652-4074
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