How to format your references using the Law, Technology and Humans citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Law, Technology and Humans. 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

Montgomery, M. H. “Astronomy. The Pulse of Distant Stars.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 322, no. 5901 (October 24, 2008): 536–37.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krengel, Ute, and Susanna Törnroth-Horsefield. “Biochemistry. Coping with Oxidative Stress.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 347, no. 6218 (January 9, 2015): 125–26.

A journal article with 3 authors

Koedinger, Kenneth R., Julie L. Booth, and David Klahr. “Education Research. Instructional Complexity and the Science to Constrain It.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 342, no. 6161 (November 22, 2013): 935–37.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zhang, Qian, Jin Chen, Kunihiro Kuwajima, Hui-Min Zhang, Feng Xian, Nicolas L. Young, and Alan G. Marshall. “Nucleotide-Induced Conformational Changes of Tetradecameric GroEL Mapped by H/D Exchange Monitored by FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry.” Scientific Reports 3 (February 13, 2013): 1247.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bayés de Luna, Antoni. Clinical Arrhythmology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

An edited book

Sánchez-Silva, Mauricio. Reliability and Life-Cycle Analysis of Deteriorating Systems. Edited by Georgia-Ann Klutke. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Fernández, Juan F. Gómez, and Adolfo Crespo Márquez. “Techniques and Tools for Maintenance Management.” In Maintenance Management in Network Utilities: Framework and Practical Implementation, edited by Adolfo Crespo Márquez, 85–123. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. London: Springer, 2012.

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 Law, Technology and Humans.

Blog post

Taub, Ben. “Indian Woman In Her Seventies Gives Birth To First Child.” IFLScience. IFLScience, May 15, 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/indian-woman-her-seventies-gives-birth-first-child/.

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. “Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Important Progress Made, But Much Work Remains to Avoid Disruption of Critical Services.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, August 14, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Arntson, Jay D. “Heidegger and Disclosive Rhetoric: Two Divergent Paths in Immanence and Transcendence.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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

Gorman, James. “Paralyzed Monkeys Can Walk Again With Wireless Brain-Spine Connection.” New York Times, November 9, 2016.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Law, Technology and Humans
ISSN (online)	2652-4074
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