How to format your references using the Journal of International Economic Law citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of International Economic 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

Pan, Jiahua, ‘China expects leadership from rich nations’, 7267 Nature 461 (2009), at 1055.

A journal article with 2 authors

Milczarek, Grzegorz and Inganäs, Olle, ‘Renewable cathode materials from biopolymer/conjugated polymer interpenetrating networks’, 6075 Science 335 (2012), at 1468.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baum, David A, Smith, Stacey Dewitt, and Donovan, Samuel S S, ‘Evolution. The tree-thinking challenge’, 5750 Science 310 (2005), at 979.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jiao, Yuchen et al, ‘DAXX/ATRX, MEN1, and mTOR pathway genes are frequently altered in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors’, 6021 Science 331 (2011), at 1199.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cayuela Valencia, Rafael, The Future of the Chemical Industry by 2050 (Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2013).

An edited book

Hãkansson, Anne, Hartung, Ronald, and Nguyen, Ngoc Thanh, Agent and Multi-agent Technology for Internet and Enterprise Systems (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010).

A chapter in an edited book

Nakano, Takeshi, ‘Neoliberalism and Conservatism’, in Satoshi Fujii (ed), Beyond Global Capitalism (Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2015) 67–75.

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 Journal of International Economic Law.

Blog post

Hale, Tom, ‘A “Potentially Hazardous” Asteroid Will Fly By Earth This Month’ (4 April 2017), IFLScience (visited 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, NASA: More Knowledge Needed to Determine Best Alternatives to Provide Space Station Logistics Support, GAO-05-488 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Song, Hyun-Jin, ‘Strategic Constraints of Economic Interdependence: South Korea’s Changing Strategy in the Face of a Rising China’ (Doctoral dissertation available at George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2014).

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

Smith, Mitch and GEORGE ETHEREDGE for THE NEW YORK TIMES, ‘Pipeline Again Divides Nebraska’, New York Times, 27 April 2017, A12.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of International Economic Law
Abbreviation	J. Int. Econ. Law
ISSN (print)	1369-3034
Scope	Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Law