How to format your references using the European Journal of Law and Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Law and Economics. 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

Slivan, S. M. (2002). Spin vector alignment of Koronis family asteroids. Nature, 419(6902), 49–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abel, G. J., & Sander, N. (2014). Quantifying global international migration flows. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6178), 1520–1522.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palazzo, A., Ackerman, B., & Gundersen, G. G. (2003). Cell biology: Tubulin acetylation and cell motility. Nature, 421(6920), 230.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Baughman, J. M., Perocchi, F., Girgis, H. S., Plovanich, M., Belcher-Timme, C. A., Sancak, Y., et al. (2011). Integrative genomics identifies MCU as an essential component of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter. Nature, 476(7360), 341–345.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cherrie, J. W., Howie, R. M., & Semple, S. (2010). Monitoring for Health Hazards at Work. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Rauf, A. (2012). Microwave-Induced Synthesis of Aromatic Heterocycles. (N. N. Farshori, Ed.) (Vol. 3). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Berg, J., & Järvisalo, M. (2016). Impact of SAT-Based Preprocessing on Core-Guided MaxSAT Solving. In M. Rueher (Ed.), Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming: 22nd International Conference, CP 2016, Toulouse, France, September 5-9, 2016, Proceedings (pp. 66–85). 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 European Journal of Law and Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013, October 29). Photographs of Baby Olinguitos Have Been Released. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/photographs-baby-olinguitos-have-been-released/. 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. (1995). Tax Systems Modernization: Management and Technical Weaknesses Must Be Corrected If Modernization Is to Succeed (No. AIMD-95-156). 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

Joseph, W. R. (2002). Physical Characterization of Vernix Caseosa: Implications for Biological Function (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Vecsey, G. (2013, November 4). An Event for the Elite and the Average Alike. New York Times, p. F2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Slivan 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Abel and Sander 2014; Slivan 2002).

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

Two authors: (Abel and Sander 2014)
Three or more authors: (Baughman et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Law and Economics
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Law Econ.
ISSN (print)	0929-1261
ISSN (online)	1572-9990
Scope	Business and International Management Economics and Econometrics Law