5.6 Your Evolving Bibliography

Bibliography

This is a skeleton bibliography that you need to fill with your material. The idea is to show you how a bibliography should be structured for different types of primary and secondary materials. Within each section, different sorting criteria need to be applied, depending on what makes the most sense, i.e. where would a non-specialized reader look for this? or how do the best books in the field do this? Within some categories, the material may have to be presented twice, for example cases of the European Court of Justice can be presented by case number AND in alphabetical order. By contrast, avoid sorting criteria that would not be commonly known. For example, few people would know WHEN judgments of the European Court of Justice have been adopted and it would be annoying to have to search for them by date. Also, check with your academic institution and/or the (prospective) publisher of your work whether they have specific guidelines or expectations or even requirements!

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Primary Sources

1. Domestic Legislative Materials

Example: U.S.C. Title 46, Ch. 28, §§1300-1315, United States Carriage of Goods by Sea Act (COGSA)

2. International Treaties and Agreements

Example: United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards ("New York Convention"), 10 June 1958, 330 UNTS p. 3

3. Domestic Case Law

Example: Blaine Richards & Co. v. Marine Indemnity Ins. Co., 1981 AMC 1, 7, 635 F.2d 1051 (2 Cir. 1980)

4. International Case Law

Example: Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), Jurisdiction and Admissibility, Judgment of 26 November 1984, 1984 ICJ Rep. 392; Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), Merits, Judgment of 27 June 1986, 1986 ICJ Rep. 14

5. Interviews

Example: Unpublished interview with ICJ President Ronny Abraham on 13 April 2016, on file with author

6. Databases

Example: Recorded Offences by Offence Category Based on Police Data, 2008 to 2013, for 28 EU Member States, Eurostat, available at http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do, last updated on 2 October 2015

Secondary Sources

1. Books and Other Independent Publications (in alphabetical order of author last name, first or lead author if several)

Required information: Last name, First name, Title, Place of publication (not always required), edition, year

Example: Habermas, Jürgen, Time of Transitions, Frankfurt, 2001

2. Articles and Contributions to Edited Works (in alphabetical order of author last name, lead author if several)

Required information if journal: Last name, First name, Title of Article, Name of Journal, Volume, Year, Number, First and Last Page of article

Example:  Emmert, Frank & Siniša Petrović: The Past, Present and Future of EU Enlargement, Fordham International Law Journal 2014, Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 1349-1419

Required information if chapter in book: Last name, First name, Title of Chapter, Last name(s) of editors, Title of book, Place of publication (not always required), edition, year, First and last page of chapter

Example:  Taman, Salma: The Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility in Islamic Law, in Emmert (ed), Corporate Social Responsibility in Comparative Perspective, Chicago 2014, pp. 117-150

3. Websites

References to websites are allowed only to the extent that more permanent and reliable sources are not available. For example, if an international agreement is accessed via a website, the reference should be to the international agreement, with the proper citation, and a secondary reference to the website.

Example: United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), UNTS Vol. 1489, p. 3, available at http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/uncitral_texts/sale_goods/1980CISG.html

Since websites can and often do change, it can be useful and may be required to add a date in the format of “last accessed on 31 July 2015”.