How to format your references using the International Comparative Jurisprudence citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Comparative Jurisprudence. 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

Spiegelhalter, D. J. (2014). Statistics. The future lies in uncertainty. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6194), 264–265.

A journal article with 2 authors

Leibfarth, F. A., & Hawker, C. J. (2011). Chemistry. Mechanically throwing a reaction into reverse. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6049), 1582–1583.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ahn, K. H., Lookman, T., & Bishop, A. R. (2004). Strain-induced metal-insulator phase coexistence in perovskite manganites. Nature, 428(6981), 401–404.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Wohlgenannt, M., Tandon, K., Mazumdar, S., Ramasesha, S., & Vardeny, Z. V. (2001). Formation cross-sections of singlet and triplet excitons in pi-conjugated polymers. Nature, 409(6819), 494–497.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kazemi, G. A., Lehr, J. H., & Perrochet, P. (2006). Groundwater Age. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kirkwood, D. H. (2010). Semi-solid Processing of Alloys (M. Suéry, P. Kapranos, H. V. Atkinson, & K. P. Young, Eds.; Vol. 124). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Taillandier, F., & Taillandier, P. (2014). Risk Management in Construction Project Using Agent-Based Simulation. In J. M. Corchado, J. Bajo, J. Kozlak, P. Pawlewski, J. M. Molina, B. Gaudou, V. Julian, R. Unland, F. Lopes, K. Hallenborg, & P. García Teodoro (Eds.), Highlights of Practical Applications of Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems. The PAAMS Collection: PAAMS 2014 International Workshops, Salamanca, Spain, June 4-6, 2014. Proceedings (pp. 34–43). 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 International Comparative Jurisprudence.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016, May 2). Great Barrier Reef Bleaching Would Be Almost Impossible Without Climate Change. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1999). Airport Financing: Annual Funding As Much As $3 Billion Less Than Planned Development (T-RCED-99-84). 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

Richardson, S. (2014). Individual sense of efficacy, collective teacher efficacy and student achievement in high achieving and low achieving urban public schools [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2016, January 8). 20 Years Ago: ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Was Reborn on TV. New York Times, C29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Spiegelhalter, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Leibfarth & Hawker, 2011; Spiegelhalter, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Leibfarth & Hawker, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Wohlgenannt et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Comparative Jurisprudence
Abbreviation	Int. Comp. Jurisprud.
ISSN (print)	2351-6674
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