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:

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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX 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

Ward, B. B. (2013). Oceans. How nitrogen is lost. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6144), 352–353.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rosenberg, S. M., & Hastings, P. J. (2003). Microbiology and evolution. Modulating mutation rates in the wild. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5624), 1382–1383.

A journal article with 3 authors

Otto, S., Furlan, R. L. E., & Sanders, J. K. M. (2002). Selection and amplification of hosts from dynamic combinatorial libraries of macrocyclic disulfides. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5581), 590–593.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lu, X. L., Lu, Q. H., Li, Y., & Lu, L. (2013). Gradient confinement induced uniform tensile ductility in metallic glass. Scientific reports, 3, 3319.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Helsel, D. R. (2011). Statistics for Censored Environmental Data Using Minitab® and R. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lee, C. T., & Wood, D. P. (Eds.). (2010). Bladder Cancer: Diagnosis, Therapeutics, and Management. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Hirohashi, Y., & Lee, S.-J. (2014). Finger Plethysmograms Analysis of Emotional Labor for the Elderly. In T. D. Pham, K. Ichikawa, M. Oyama-Higa, D. Coomans, & X. Jiang (Eds.), Biomedical Informatics and Technology: First International Conference, ACBIT 2013, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, September 16-17, 2013. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 40–52). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Hale, T. (2016, August 2). Why Have Loads Of Corpse Flowers Been Releasing Their Stink Recently? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-have-loads-of-corpse-flowers-been-releasing-their-stink-recently/. 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. (2002). Distance Education: Growth in Distance Education Programs and Implications for Federal Education Policy (No. GAO-02-1125T). 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

Stanford, C. J. (2008). Highly sensitive fiber Bragg grating biosensors (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2016, May 20). ‘Roots,’ the Series That Had Everyone Talking. New York Times, p. C26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ward 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Rosenberg and Hastings 2003; Ward 2013).

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

Two authors: (Rosenberg and Hastings 2003)
Three or more authors: (Lu et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Asian Journal of Criminology
Abbreviation	Asian J. Criminol.
ISSN (print)	1871-0131
ISSN (online)	1871-014X
Scope	Law