How to format your references using the Human Rights Law Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Human Rights Law Review (HRLR). 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

Macilwain, Colin, ‘Sharing Information Is Preferable to Patenting’ (2013) 498(7454) Nature 273

A journal article with 2 authors

Nicholson, Donald W and Nancy A Thornberry, ‘Apoptosis. Life and Death Decisions’ (2003) 299(5604) Science (New York, N.Y.) 214

A journal article with 3 authors

Roditi, HA, NS Fisher and SA Sañudo-Wilhelmy, ‘Uptake of Dissolved Organic Carbon and Trace Elements by Zebra Mussels’ (2000) 407(6800) Nature 78

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Azevedo, Ricardo BR et al, ‘Sexual Reproduction Selects for Robustness and Negative Epistasis in Artificial Gene Networks’ (2006) 440(7080) Nature 87

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heller, Dana, Hairspray (2011)

An edited book

Cao, Zhiheng, Low-Power High-Speed ADCs for Nanometer CMOS Integration (2008)

A chapter in an edited book

Bateni, Mohammadhossein et al, ‘Revenue Maximization with Nonexcludable Goods’ in Chen and Immorlica (eds), Web and Internet Economics: 9th International Conference, WINE 2013, Cambridge, MA, USA, December 11-14, 2013, Proceedings (2013) 40

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 Human Rights Law Review.

Blog post

Davis, Josh, ‘Nepal Nearly Doubled Their Tiger Population In Just Three Years’, IFLScience, 29 July 2016, available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/nepal-nearly-doubled-their-tiger-population-in-just-three-years/ [last 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, Mass Transit: Information on Federal Participation in Transit Benefit Programs, U.S. Government Printing Office, 13 November 1992, RCED-93-25, 13 November 1992

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beattie, Larry J, Meeting the Needs of Low Income Students (Doctoral dissertation, 2013)

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

Gelles, David and Michael J de la MERCED, ‘Staples to Sell for $6.9 Billion, and Its New Owner Has an Uphill Battle’ New York Times, 28 June 2017 B1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Human Rights Law Review
ISSN (print)	1461-7781
ISSN (online)	1744-1021
Scope