How to format your references using the Netherlands International Law Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Netherlands International Law Review. 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

Guberman SL (2001) Chemistry. Breaking up is hard to do without an electron. Science 294:1474–1475

A journal article with 2 authors

Pucadyil TJ, Schmid SL (2009) Conserved functions of membrane active GTPases in coated vesicle formation. Science 325:1217–1220

A journal article with 3 authors

Hayes D, Griffin GB, Engel GS (2014) Response to Comment on “Engineering coherence among excited states in synthetic heterodimer systems.” Science 344:1099

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jin H, Rhim SH, Im J, Freeman AJ (2013) Topological oxide insulator in cubic perovskite structure. Sci Rep 3:1651

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wiens JA (2016) Ecological Challenges and Conservation Conundrums. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Burke A (2015) Pocket Reference to Alzheimer’s Disease Management. Springer Healthcare Ltd., Tarporley

A chapter in an edited book

Senani R, Bhaskar DR, Singh AK, Singh VK (2013) Design of Filters Using CFOAs. In: Bhaskar DR, Singh AK, Singh VK (eds) Current Feedback Operational Amplifiers and Their Applications. Springer, New York, NY, pp 81–130

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 Netherlands International Law Review.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Frozen Poop Pills Could Fight Deadly Infections. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1991) U.S. Airlines: Weak Financial Structure Threatens Competition. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jones JD (2013) Parental attachment style: Links with parent and adolescent perceptions of parenting and observed secure base behaviors. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Boone. New York Times C10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guberman 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Guberman 2001; Pucadyil and Schmid 2009).

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

Two authors: (Pucadyil and Schmid 2009)
Three or more authors: (Jin et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Netherlands International Law Review
Abbreviation	Neth. Int. Law Rev.
ISSN (print)	0165-070X
ISSN (online)	1741-6191
Scope	Law