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

Check E (2002) BSE in human tissues fires debate on patient disclosure. Nature 419:326

A journal article with 2 authors

Vollrath F, Knight DP (2001) Liquid crystalline spinning of spider silk. Nature 410:541–548

A journal article with 3 authors

Wilson HR, Blake R, Lee SH (2001) Dynamics of travelling waves in visual perception. Nature 412:907–910

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gonzalez D, Richez M, Bergonzi C, et al (2014) Crystal structure of the phosphate-binding protein (PBP-1) of an ABC-type phosphate transporter from Clostridium perfringens. Sci Rep 4:6636

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Armstrong HA, Brasier MD (2004) Microfossils. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA USA

An edited book

Dauphinee S, Karsan A (eds) (2010) Endothelial Dysfunction and Inflammation. Springer, Basel

A chapter in an edited book

Borbély D (2005) EU Export Specialization Patterns in Selected Accession Countries. In: Welfens PJJ, Wziątek-Kubiak A (eds) Structural Change and Exchange Rate Dynamics: The Economics of EU Eastern Enlargement. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 37–72

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

Hale T (2016) Man Documents The Moments After He Survives Two Bear Attacks. In: IFLScience. 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 (2016) Cloud Computing: Agencies Need to Incorporate Key Practices to Ensure Effective Performance. 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

Gonzalez R (2010) A mentoring program for Latino foster youth: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Mishan L (2017) The Taste of Darkness. New York Times M2166

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Vollrath and Knight 2001; Check 2002).

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

Two authors: (Vollrath and Knight 2001)
Three or more authors: (Gonzalez et al. 2014)

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