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Authors are encouraged to use standard American English spellings.

Citation Style
Authors must abide by editing decisions done in compliance with the MJLST's style requirements. MJLST is currently developing a citation style based on the most current edition of "A Uniform System of Citation." MJLST uses a modified form of the "Bluebook," for which an online guide can be found at http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation. Guidelines include:

1. Use footnotes, not endnotes or inline references to a bibliography.

2. Use full names of all authors in first name last name format. Exception: if the number of coauthors exceeds three, use the abbreviation et al.

3. For journal articles, the first page is essential. To the extent possible, please provide the specific page on which a quotation appears or on which a reader can find support for a proposition.

4. Please provide the full name of any journal you cite.

5. For dates, the year should suffice in most instances. The Federal Register is an exception; please provide the month and day.

6. For subsequent references, indicate last name(s) and the footnote in which the source previously appeared.

7. Endeavor to include all bibliographical information.

Here are some examples.

Single-author article:
Eliot Marshall, A Deluge of Patents Creates Legal Hassles for Research, 288 SCIENCE 255, 257 (2000).

Multiple-author article:
Joshua A. Newberg & Richard L. Dunn, Keeping Secrets in the Campus Lab: Law, Values and Rules of Engagement for Industry-University R&D Partnerships, 39 AM. BUS. L.J. 187, 193 (2002).

Wen-Yuan Song et al., A Receptor-Like Protein Encoded by the Rice Disease Resistance Gene Xa21, 270 SCIENCE 1804 (1995).

Work in an edited collection:
John P. Walsh, Ashish Arora & Wesley M. Cohen, Research Tool Patenting and Licensing and Biomedical Innovation, in PATENTS IN THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY 285, 297 (Wesley M. Cohen & Stephen A. Merrill eds., 2002)

Book:
DAVID MICKLOS & GREG A. FREYER, DNA SCIENCE: A FIRST COURSE 72-72 (2d ed. 2003).

Book with an institutional author:
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND RESEARCH TOOLS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (1997).

Edited book:
TRENDS IN FEDERAL SUPPORT OF RESEARCH AND GRADUATE EDUCATION (Stephen A. Merrill ed., 2001).

Judicial decision:
Madey v. Duke Univ., 307 F.3d 1351 (Fed. Cir. 2002), cert. denied, 123 S. Ct. 2639 (2003).

Statute #1: If citing the Hatch-Waxman Act as binding law -- 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(1) (2000).

Statute #2: If citing the passage of Hatch-Waxman as a historical event -- Drug Price Competition and Patent Restoration Act of 1984, Pub. L. No. 98-417, 98 Stat. 1585.