How to format your references using the Netherlands International Law Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Netherlands International Law Review. 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

Wadhwa M (2001) Redox state of Mars’ upper mantle and crust from Eu anomalies in shergottite pyroxenes. Science 291:1527–1530

A journal article with 2 authors

Freeman BC, Yamamoto KR (2002) Disassembly of transcriptional regulatory complexes by molecular chaperones. Science 296:2232–2235

A journal article with 3 authors

Jin J, Ouyang Z, Wang Z (2014) Association of fruit and vegetables with the risk of nasopharyngeal cancer: evidence from a meta-analysis. Sci Rep 4:5229

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jones T, Ehardt CL, Butynski TM, et al (2005) The highland mangabey Lophocebus kipunji: a new species of African monkey. Science 308:1161–1164

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schorn C, Taylor B (2004) NMR Spectroscopy: Data Acquisition. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Yeh C (2008) The Essence of Dielectric Waveguides. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Koski SE (2011) How to Measure Animal Personality and Why Does It Matter? Integrating the Psychological and Biological Approaches to Animal Personality. In: Inoue-Murayama M, Kawamura S, Weiss A (eds) From Genes to Animal Behavior: Social Structures, Personalities, Communication by Color. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 115–136

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 Netherlands International Law Review.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Greener But Not Cleaner? How Trees Can Worsen Urban Air Pollution. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/greener-not-cleaner-how-trees-can-worsen-urban-air-pollution/. 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 (1979) Need for More Effective Audits of Federal Grants and Contracts Administered by Institutions of Higher Education. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Simon-Owens NL (2010) Southern Virginia Higher Education Center: An exploration of factors affecting organizational leadership. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Vecsey G (2010) Ryan Tries to Flatten A Persistent Opponent. New York Times B10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wadhwa 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Wadhwa 2001; Freeman and Yamamoto 2002).

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

Two authors: (Freeman and Yamamoto 2002)
Three or more authors: (Jones et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Netherlands International Law Review
Abbreviation	Neth. Int. Law Rev.
ISSN (print)	0165-070X
ISSN (online)	1741-6191
Scope	Law