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

D. S. Greenberg, ‘Science and society. On the road to academic greatness--a parable’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 317, (2007), pp. 1328–1329.

A journal article with 2 authors

P. Anand & N. Chandra, ‘Characterizing the pocketome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and application in rationalizing polypharmacological target selection’, Scientific reports 4, (2014), pp. 6356.

A journal article with 3 authors

C. Hägglund, M. Grätzel & B. Kasemo, ‘Comment on “efficient photochemical water splitting by a chemically modified n-TiO2” (II)’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 301, (2003), pp. 1673; discussion 1673.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

S. R. Ramírez, B. Gravendeel, R. B. Singer, C. R. Marshall & N. E. Pierce, ‘Dating the origin of the Orchidaceae from a fossil orchid with its pollinator’, Nature 448, (2007), pp. 1042–1045.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

D. Prutchi & M. Norris, Design and Development of Medical Electronic Instrumentation, Hoboken, NJ 2004.

An edited book

P. Courtet (ed.), Understanding Suicide: From Diagnosis to Personalized Treatment 1st ed. 2016, Cham 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

J. Sivák, ‘DE L’ « In-Existence » Intentionnelle À Ĺ « Ek-In-Sistence » Existentielle’, [in:] A.-T. Tymieniecka (ed.), Phenomenology and Existentialism in the Twentieth Century: Book One New Waves of Philosophical Inspirations, Dordrecht 2009, pp. 45–73.

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, ‘Bionic Plants: Turning Plants Into Energy Producing Factories’, IFLScience,, 2014 <https://www.iflscience.com/technology/bionic-plants-turning-plants-energy-producing-factories/> [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, Federal-Aid Highways: Federal Requirements for Highways May Influence Funding Decisions and Create Challenges, but Benefits and Costs Are Not Tracked, Washington, DC 12 December 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

P. A. Conner, ‘The STAR Math test as a predictor of Arkansas BenchmarkTest scores’, unpublished Doctoral dissertation St. Charles, MO 2009.

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

M. J. O. Murphy, ‘Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times’, New York Times,, 10 April 2015, p. C29.

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