How to format your references using the Crime Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Crime Science. 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

Grützmacher, H. (2000). CHEMISTRY: New Chemical Bricks Made Through Phosphorus Tricks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5480), 737–738.

A journal article with 2 authors

Simpson, S. J., & Raubenheimer, D. (2014). Perspective: Tricks of the trade. Nature, 508(7496), S66.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sasaki, T., Yamamoto, Y., & Koashi, M. (2014). Practical quantum key distribution protocol without monitoring signal disturbance. Nature, 509(7501), 475–478.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Volkmann, N., Amann, K. J., Stoilova-McPhie, S., Egile, C., Winter, D. C., Hazelwood, L., et al. (2001). Structure of Arp2/3 complex in its activated state and in actin filament branch junctions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5539), 2456–2459.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mohos, F. Á. (2017). Confectionery and Chocolate Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Redkar, T. (2011). Windows Azure Platform. (T. Guidici, Ed.) (Second Edition.). Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Woolf, N. J., Priel, A., & Tuszynski, J. A. (2010). Nanotechnology, Nanostructure, and Nervous System Disorders. In A. Priel & J. A. Tuszynski (Eds.), Nanoneuroscience: Structural and Functional Roles of the Neuronal Cytoskeleton in Health and Disease (pp. 177–226). 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 Crime Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 3). Where Did HIV Come From? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-insights-origin-hiv-pandemic/. 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. (1987). Representational Funds: State Department Expenditures at Selected Posts (No. NSIAD-87-73FS). 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

Dale, B. (2012). Changing how we change: A case study of Escondido Union School District (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Leland, J. (2017, April 20). Staying ‘in the ’Hood, Up to No Good’. New York Times, p. MB2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grützmacher 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Grützmacher 2000; Simpson and Raubenheimer 2014).

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

Two authors: (Simpson and Raubenheimer 2014)
Three or more authors: (Volkmann et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Crime Science
Abbreviation	Crime Sci.
ISSN (online)	2193-7680
Scope

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