How to format your references using the Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction. 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

Fisk, L. A. 2005. “Journey into the unknown beyond.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 309 (5743): 2016–2017.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ahn, N. G., and K. A. Resing. 2005. “Cell biology. Lessons in rational drug design for protein kinases.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 308 (5726): 1266–1267.

A journal article with 3 authors

Blin, A., I. Cissé, and U. Bockelmann. 2014. “Electronic hybridization detection in microarray format and DNA genotyping.” Scientific reports, 4: 4194.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tai, R. H., C. Qi Liu, A. V. Maltese, and X. Fan. 2006. “Career choice. Planning early for careers in science.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 312 (5777): 1143–1144.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smilansky, S. 2007. 10 Moral Paradoxes. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Tryfonas, T., and I. Askoxylakis, eds. 2014. Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy, and Trust: Second International Conference, HAS 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Boer, T. 2010. “The Relation between Theology and Philosophy, A Story of Troubled Twins.” Philosophy of Religion, edited by G. Fløistad, 107–127. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. “El Gordo Galaxy Lives Up To Its Name.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 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. 1976. HEW’s Refund Policies of Basic Grants and Other Student Aid Programs. Washington, DC: 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

Cox, T. M. 2010. “Is the Procurement Integrity Act ‘Important’ Enough for the Mandatory Disclosure Rule?: A Look at the Procurement Integrity Act and the Case for its Inclusion in the Mandatory Disclosure Rule.” 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

Hodara, S. 2015. “Joyful Puzzles of Home and Transition.” New York Times, May 3, 2015.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fisk 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Ahn and Resing 2005; Fisk 2005).

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

Two authors: (Ahn and Resing 2005)
Three or more authors: (Tai et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction
ISSN (print)	1943-4162
ISSN (online)	1943-4170
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