How to format your references using the Asian Journal of Criminology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Journal of Criminology. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles 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
Mervis, J. (2015). Behind the numbers. Salaries pump up biomedical inflation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6245), 225.
A journal article with 2 authors
Hurtley, S. M., & Pennisi, E. (2007). Journey to the center of the cell. Introduction to special issue. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5855), 1399.
A journal article with 3 authors
Borys, N. J., Shafran, E., & Lupton, J. M. (2013). Surface plasmon delocalization in silver nanoparticle aggregates revealed by subdiffraction supercontinuum hot spots. Scientific reports, 3, 2090.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Bernard, P., Maure, J. F., Partridge, J. F., Genier, S., Javerzat, J. P., & Allshire, R. C. (2001). Requirement of heterochromatin for cohesion at centromeres. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5551), 2539–2542.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Bauer, E. (2010). Design for Reliability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Jacobs, S. (2008). Foundation Flex for Developers: Data-Driven Applications with PHP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, and LCDS. (K. D. Weggheleire, Ed.). Berkeley, CA: Apress.
A chapter in an edited book
Gornitzka, Å. (2009). Networking Administration in Areas of National Sensitivity: The Commission and European Higher Education. In A. Amaral, G. Neave, C. Musselin, & P. Maassen (Eds.), European Integration and the Governance of Higher Education and Research (pp. 109–131). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Asian Journal of Criminology.

Blog post
Andrew, E. (2014, March 17). Bionic Plants: Turning Plants Into Energy Producing Factories. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/bionic-plants-turning-plants-energy-producing-factories/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1989). Implementation of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act (No. T-HRD-89-8). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Rafibakhsh, N. (2013). Industrial Applications of Microsoft Xbox Kinect Sensor (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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
Barron, J. (2016, September 6). Overlooked Influences in Trump’s Life: A Famous Minister and His Church. New York Times, p. A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mervis 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hurtley and Pennisi 2007; Mervis 2015).

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

  • Two authors: (Hurtley and Pennisi 2007)
  • Three or more authors: (Bernard et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal titleAsian Journal of Criminology
AbbreviationAsian J. Criminol.
ISSN (print)1871-0131
ISSN (online)1871-014X
ScopeLaw

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