How to format your references using the The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law. 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	Download the output style file
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

Cave, Robert J. 2009. “Chemistry. Inducing Chirality with Circularly Polarized Light.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 323 (5920): 1435–1436.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, K., and E. I. Stiefel. 2001. “Toward Separation and Purification of Olefins Using Dithiolene Complexes: An Electrochemical Approach.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 291 (5501): 106–109.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jockers, Matthew L., Matthew Sag, and Jason Schultz. 2012. “Digital Archives: Don’t Let Copyright Block Data Mining.” Nature 490 (7418): 29–30.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Terrak, Mohammed, Frederic Kerff, Knut Langsetmo, Terence Tao, and Roberto Dominguez. 2004. “Structural Basis of Protein Phosphatase 1 Regulation.” Nature 429 (6993): 780–784.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Markley, Nelson G. 2004. Principles of Differential Equations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Drioli, Enrico, and Lidietta Giorno, eds. 2016. Encyclopedia of Membranes. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jaramillo, David, Borko Furht, and Ankur Agarwal. 2014. “Mobile Virtualization Reference Architecture.” In Virtualization Techniques for Mobile Systems, edited by Borko Furht and Ankur Agarwal, 37–53. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. 2016. “Europe’s ExoMars Rover Has Been Delayed To 2020.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/europes-exomars-rover-has-been-delayed-2020/.

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. 2001. Aviation Competition: Challenges in Enhancing Competition in Dominated Markets. GAO-01-518T. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lee, Evan B. 2017. “Environmental Thyroid Endocrine Disruption in Shiner Perch (Cymatogaster Aggregata): An Analysis of Thyroid Glandular Function.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Fiske, Isabella Howe. 1907. “WILLIAM MORRIS.” New York Times, March 23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cave 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Cave 2009; Wang and Stiefel 2001).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Stiefel 2001)
Three authors: (Jockers, Sag, and Schultz 2012)
4 or more authors: (Terrak et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law
ISSN (print)	0732-9113
ISSN (online)	2305-9931
Scope	Law