How to format your references using the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hague Journal on the Rule of 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	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

Owens B (2013) Obesity: heavy sleepers. Nature 497:S8-9

A journal article with 2 authors

Lasne F, de Ceaurriz J (2000) Recombinant erythropoietin in urine. Nature 405:635

A journal article with 3 authors

Furuya T, Kamlet AS, Ritter T (2011) Catalysis for fluorination and trifluoromethylation. Nature 473:470–477

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Huang C-T, Oyang Y-J, Huang H-C, Juan H-F (2014) MicroRNA-mediated networks underlie immune response regulation in papillary thyroid carcinoma. Sci Rep 4:6495

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paoluzzi A, Pascucci V, Vicentino M, et al (2005) Geometric Programming for Computer-Aided Design. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Szewczyk R, Zieliński C, Kaliczyńska M (eds) (2015) Progress in Automation, Robotics and Measuring Techniques: Volume 2 Robotics. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Anastassiou GA, Argyros IK (2016) Newton-Like Procedures and Their Applications in Multivariate Fractional Calculus. In: Argyros IK (ed) Intelligent Numerical Methods II: Applications to Multivariate Fractional Calculus. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 51–62

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 Hague Journal on the Rule of Law.

Blog post

Andrew D (2015) How Much Would It Cost To Be Batman? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/cost-being-batman/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1982) Improper Use of Federal Student Aid Funds for Lobbying Activities. 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

Powell BD (2009) An ethnographic case study of teachers who are alumni of the private day school for boys in which they teach. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Hollander S (2002) Fordham Produces Five Records and a Rout. New York Times 82

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Owens 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Lasne and de Ceaurriz 2000; Owens 2013).

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

Two authors: (Lasne and de Ceaurriz 2000)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Hague Journal on the Rule of Law
ISSN (print)	1876-4045
ISSN (online)	1876-4053
Scope	Law