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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL). 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

W.J. Strittmatter, 'Medicine. Old Drug, New Hope for Alzheimer’s Disease', (2012) 335 Science (New York, N.Y.), 1447–1448.

A journal article with 2 authors

X. Chen & G.Y. Yan, 'Semi-Supervised Learning for Potential Human microRNA-Disease Associations Inference', (2014) 4 Scientific reports, 5501.

A journal article with 3 authors

V. Callier et al, 'Contrasting Developmental Trajectories in the Earliest Known Tetrapod Forelimbs', (2009) 324 Science (New York, N.Y.), 364–367.

A journal article with 3 or more authors

R. Onodera et al, 'Potential Use of Folate-Appended Methyl-β-Cyclodextrin as an Anticancer Agent', (2013) 3 Scientific reports, 1104.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

H. Bourlès, Linear Systems (2013).

An edited book

J. Hodicky (ed.), Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems: Third International Workshop, MESAS 2016, Rome, Italy, June 15-16, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (2016).

A chapter in an edited book

N. Ding & D. Gu, 'Precise Time and Space Simulatable Zero-Knowledge', in X. Boyen & X. Chen (ed.), Provable Security: 5th International Conference, ProvSec 2011, Xi’an, China, October 16-18, 2011. Proceedings (2011), 16.

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 Leiden Journal of International Law.

Blog post

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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

U.S. Government Printing Office, Port Development: Sponsors Have Not Used User Fee Financing to Date, May 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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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

G.A. Hirsch, 'The Humanity of the Long-Distance Runner', New York Times, 24 April 2011

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Leiden Journal of International Law
Abbreviation	Leiden J. Int. Law
ISSN (print)	0922-1565
ISSN (online)	1478-9698
Scope	Law Political Science and International Relations