How to format your references using the German Yearbook of International Law citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for German Yearbook of International Law (GYIL). 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

Filippelli, 'Oceans. A Salty Start to Modern Ocean Circulation', 344 Science (New York, N.Y.) (2014) 1228.

A journal article with 2 authors

Klenerman and McMichael, 'AIDS/HIV. Finding Footprints among the Trees', 315 Science (New York, N.Y.) (2007) 1505.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fowler, Johnson, and Smirnov, 'Human Behaviour: Egalitarian Motive and Altruistic Punishment', 433 Nature (2005) 1 p following 32; discussion following 32.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kabat et al., 'Climate Proofing the Netherlands', 438 Nature (2005) 283.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott David Meerman, World Wide Rave (2009).

An edited book

Bonham-Carter Graeme and Cheng Qiuming (eds.), Progress in Geomathematics (2008).

A chapter in an edited book

Silva, , Vieira, 'The Value of Informal Learning for Illiterate Older Women Across the Lifespan', in Joanna Ostrouch-Kamińska and Cristina C. Vieira (eds.), Private World(s): Gender and Informal Learning of Adults (2015) 59.

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 German Yearbook of International Law.

Blog post

O`Callaghan Jonathan, Key Ingredients For Life Found On Comet 67P, 1 June 2016, IFLScience, available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/key-ingredients-life-found-comet-67p/.

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, FCC: Competitive Service Safeguards for Local Exchange Carrier Provision of Commercial Mobile Radio Services and Implementation of Section 601(d) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, OGC-98-21 (1997).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Munn Jamie E., 'Information Technology Certification Training Implementation: Exploratory Case Study of Air Force and Civilian Leaders Experiences' (2017) (Doctoral dissertation thesis, available at University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ).

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

Jacoby, 'The First Victims of the First Crusade', New York Times (2015) SR5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	German Yearbook of International Law
ISSN (print)	0344-3094
Scope