How to format your references using the Annual Review of Law and Social Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Law and Social Science. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Schneier B. 2001. Protecting privacy and liberty. Nature. 413(6858):773

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith SA, Donoghue MJ. 2008. Rates of molecular evolution are linked to life history in flowering plants. Science. 322(5898):86–89

A journal article with 3 authors

Dharmasiri N, Dharmasiri S, Estelle M. 2005. The F-box protein TIR1 is an auxin receptor. Nature. 435(7041):441–45

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lu B, Roegiers F, Jan LY, Jan YN. 2001. Adherens junctions inhibit asymmetric division in the Drosophila epithelium. Nature. 409(6819):522–25

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fliszár S. 2008. Atomic Charges, Bond Properties, and Molecular Energies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Alon N, Bourgain J, Connes A, Gromov M, Milman V, eds. 2010. Visions in Mathematics: GAFA 2000 Special Volume, Part II. Basel: Birkhäuser

A chapter in an edited book

Holden H, Øksendal B, Ubøe J, Zhang T. 2010. Stochastic Partial Differential Equations Driven by Lévy Processes. In Stochastic Partial Differential Equations: A Modeling, White Noise Functional Approach, eds. B Øksendal, J Ubøe, T Zhang, pp. 213–56. New York, NY: Springer

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 Annual Review of Law and Social Science.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. Animal Parenting: Mothers That Play Favorites, Why Whales Have Menopause, And Adults Who Have Sex With Infants. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 2006. Offshoring in Six Human Services Programs: Offshoring Occurs in Most States, Primarily in Customer Service and Software Development. GAO-06-342, 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

Templeton TH. 2017. The Impact of Emergent Information and Communication Technology on Peacebuilding. Doctoral dissertation thesis. George Washington University

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

Wagner J. 2017. Mets Hope a Little Rest Will Suffice for Cabrera. New York Times, May 16, , p. B9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schneier 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Schneier 2001; Smith & Donoghue 2008).

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

Two authors: (Smith & Donoghue 2008)
Three or more authors: (Lu et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Law and Social Science
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Law Soc. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1550-3585
ISSN (online)	1550-3631
Scope	Law Sociology and Political Science