How to format your references using the The Journal of Juristic Papyrology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Juristic Papyrology. 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

M. Banks, ‘Seeking a PhD abroad’, Nature 445, (2007), pp. 680.

A journal article with 2 authors

W. S. Paterson & N. Reeh, ‘Thinning of the ice sheet in northwest Greenland over the past forty years’, Nature 414, (2001), pp. 60–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

F. S. Collins, G. M. Gray & J. R. Bucher, ‘Toxicology. Transforming environmental health protection’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 319, (2008), pp. 906–907.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

V. W. C. Soo, H.-Y. Cheng, B. W. Kwan & T. K. Wood, ‘de novo synthesis of a bacterial toxin/antitoxin system’, Scientific reports 4, (2014), pp. 4807.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

G. A. Korn, Advanced Dynamic-System Simulation, Hoboken, NJ 2013.

An edited book

A. Shimazu, R. Bin Nordin, M. Dollard & J. Oakman (eds.), Psychosocial Factors at Work in the Asia Pacific: From Theory to Practice, Cham 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

H. Gautschi & D. Gautschi, ‘How Did We Get to Here? The Role of the State in Fostering Context’, [in:] D. Gautschi (ed.), Technological Innovation and Economic Transformation: A Method for Contextual Analysis, New York, NY 2016, pp. 77–119.

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 The Journal of Juristic Papyrology.

Blog post

E. Andrew, ‘Parasitic wasp turns roaches into zombie slaves using neurotoxic cocktail’, IFLScience,, 2014 <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/parasitic-wasp-turns-roaches-zombie-slaves-using-neurotoxic-cocktail/> [accessed 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, Award of Grant by Education, Washington, DC 2 November 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Z. Zhu, ‘Financial restatements: Implications for management earnings forecasts’, unpublished Doctoral dissertation Washington, DC 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

G. Johnson, ‘Creation, in the Eye of the Beholder’, New York Times,, 20 May 2014, p. D3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Juristic Papyrology
ISSN (print)	0075-4277
Scope