How to format your references using the Laws citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Laws. 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

Ghosh, T. STRETCHABLE ELECTRONICS. Stretch, Wrap, and Relax to Smartness. Science 2015, 349, 382–383.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pulendran, B.; Artis, D. New Paradigms in Type 2 Immunity. Science 2012, 337, 431–435.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moellering, E.R.; Muthan, B.; Benning, C. Freezing Tolerance in Plants Requires Lipid Remodeling at the Outer Chloroplast Membrane. Science 2010, 330, 226–228.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Huang, W.; Ghisletti, S.; Saijo, K.; Gandhi, M.; Aouadi, M.; Tesz, G.J.; Zhang, D.X.; Yao, J.; Czech, M.P.; Goode, B.L.; et al. Coronin 2A Mediates Actin-Dependent de-Repression of Inflammatory Response Genes. Nature 2011, 470, 414–418.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chappell, D. The JCT Intermediate Building Contracts 2005; Blackwell Publishing: Oxford, UK, 2008; ISBN 9780470759714.

An edited book

Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering: 6th International Conference, XP 2005, Sheffield, UK, June 18-23, 2005. Proceedings; Baumeister, H., Marchesi, M., Holcombe, M., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005; Vol. 3556; ISBN 9783540262770.

A chapter in an edited book

Craven, M.P.; Selvarajah, K.; Miles, R.; Schnädelbach, H.; Massey, A.; Vedhara, K.; Raine-Fenning, N.; Crowe, J. User Requirements for the Development of Smartphone Self-Reporting Applications in Healthcare. In Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services: 15th International Conference, HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part II; Kurosu, M., Ed.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; pp. 36–45 ISBN 9783642392610.

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 Laws.

Blog post

Luntz, S. Measuring The Cost Of Water Collection Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/measuring-the-cost-of-water-collection/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Transportation Infrastructure: Major Program Revisions Present Challenges; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1992;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Solorzano, E. A Mindfulness-Based Psycho-Educational Group for Caregivers of Older Adults: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2014.

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

Kelly, C. Scent Notes: The Citrus Aroma of the Season. New York Times 2016, ST3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Laws
Abbreviation	Laws
ISSN (online)	2075-471X
Scope