Style request - LJIL - Leiden Journal of International Law

Dear all, I post this here as I need help with a style which is the style of the Leiden Journal of International Law (LJIL) one of Europe's leading law journals (zotero nearly completely law-journal styles so far and I hope this contribution could also make way for more styles from the legal sphere and the humanities as we are duly underrepresented until now). Law journal style includes some specific elements such as cases, U.N. Documents, thus I can unfortunately not say which (already) existing style is the closest. However, one of my friends did a first draft which I will add in the follow-up post as this post would be otherwise too long. It should hopefully help you a lot. Please see also my previous post : http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/15717/style-request-leiden-journal-of-international-law/

Here are the important main points:

from page 7 of the document on (link on the bottom)
1. Books
Author, Title(ITALICS) (year), page
Examples: L. Davies, Law of the Antarctic (ITALICS) (1976), 432

2. Articles
Author, ‘Title’, (year) volume Periodical (ITALICS) [or abbreviation in roman font] first page, at page of quote. Examples: J. Donelly, ‘Human Rights in the Next Century’, 1985 Journal of World Politics (ITALICS) 75

3. Contributions in compilations and edited volumes
Author, ‘Title’, in editor’s name (ed.), Compilation (ITALICS) (year), first page at page of quote
Example: M. Akehurst, ‘Humanitarian Intervention’, in H. Bull (ed.), Intervention in World Politics (ITALICS) (1979), 97 at 99.

4. Newspaper articles
Author, ‘Title’, Paper (ITALICS), date, page.
Example: A. Lewis, ‘The War Crimes Tribunal Works’, International Herald Tribune (ITALICS), 31 July
1995, 5.

5. Cases
5.1. International Court of Justice
Full case name (Party v. Party) (ITALICS), Phase, Kind of Decision, date, [year] publication, first page, at page of quote, paragraph.
Examples: Maritime Delimitation and Territorial Questions Between Qatar and Bahrain (Qatar v. Bahrain) (ITALICS), Jurisdiction and Admissibility, Judgment of 15 February 1995, [1995] ICJ Rep. 6, at 8, para. 4.
for other courts see the documents, however this is not that important for the citation style, simlarly for documents of international organisations etc., I will omit those specific categories, should you be motivated to include them, please go ahead :)

7. Internet (url)
Full url (you can omit http://)
Example: www.un.org/icty



Instruction for Contributors, Leiden Journal of International Law-
http://assets.cambridge.org/LJL/LJL_ifc.pdf
THANK YOU VERY MUCH for you time and consideration, it is truly appreciated:
  • edited July 13, 2011
    the first draft of my friend can be found here: http://funkybudha.net/wp-content/uploads/leiden-journal-int-law.csl

    I tried to post it directly, but the forum reformatted it somehow so that it was not visible...
  • I'll take a look. My very first law review article was published in the Leiden Journal of International Law, and I would be delighted to see strong Zotero support for their house style.
  • thank you very much, this is great :), I was an assistant editor of the journal so I might have read what you've written...
  • Dear all,

    It seems like this page has been inactive for a while, but I'm going to try it anyway. I would like to write my phd in the Leiden Journal Style while using Zotero, therfore I was wondering if anyone knows more about a finalized version of the .csl for this style.

    I would very much apreciate it.

    Franke
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