How to format your references using the Election Law Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Election Law Journal (ELJ). 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 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

Donath J. Computer Science. Virtually Trustworthy. Science 2007;317(5834):53–54.

A journal article with 2 authors

Freedman DJ and Assad JA. Experience-Dependent Representation of Visual Categories in Parietal Cortex. Nature 2006;443(7107):85–88.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jia H, Liggins JR and Chow WS. Entropy and Biological Systems: Experimentally-Investigated Entropy-Driven Stacking of Plant Photosynthetic Membranes. Sci Rep 2014;4:4142.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Parmentier E, Colleye O, Fine ML, et al. Sound Production in the Clownfish Amphiprion Clarkii. Science 2007;316(5827):1006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Manuele FA. On the Practice of Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2005.

An edited book

Long ET and Horn P, (eds). Ethics of Belief: Essays in Tribute to D.Z. Phillips. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Iyer R. Imaging of Gynecologic Malignancies. In: Gynecologic Cancer. (Eifel PJ, Gershenson DM, Kavanagh JJ, et al. eds). M. D. Anderson Cancer Care Series Springer: New York, NY; 2006; pp. 49–63.

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 Election Law Journal.

Blog post

Andrew D. Just How Small Is An Atom? IFLScience; 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/how-small-atom/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Transportation Infrastructure: Benefits of Traffic Control Signal Systems Are Not Being Fully Realized. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kraynik MJ. Perceptions of U.S. Navy Managers toward Telecommuting as a Management Approach: A Phenomenological Study. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ; 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

Koblin J. A Ratings Milestone For ‘Game of Thrones.’ New York Times 2017;C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Donath, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Donath, 2007; Freedman and Assad, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Freedman and Assad, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Parmentier et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Election Law Journal
ISSN (print)	1533-1296
ISSN (online)	1557-8062
Scope