How to format your references using the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research. 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
Egues, J. C. (2005). Physics. Fingerprinting spin qubits. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5734), 565–567.
A journal article with 2 authors
Bellwood, P., & White, P. (2005). Domesticated pigs in eastern Indonesia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5733), 381; author reply 381.
A journal article with 3 authors
Guo, D., Knight, T. E., & McCusker, J. K. (2011). Angular momentum conservation in dipolar energy transfer. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6063), 1684–1687.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Krieger, U. K., Huthwelker, T., Daniel, C., Weers, U., Peter, T., & Lanford, W. A. (2002). Rutherford backscattering to study the near-surface region of volatile liquids and solids. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5557), 1048–1050.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Feyel, P. (2013). Loop-shaping Robust Control. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Gontier, N. (Ed.). (2015). Reticulate Evolution: Symbiogenesis, Lateral Gene Transfer, Hybridization and Infectious Heredity (Vol. 3). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
A chapter in an edited book
Hormann, V. (2015). Modelling Speciation and Distribution of Radionuclides in Agricultural Soils. In C. Walther & D. K. Gupta (Eds.), Radionuclides in the Environment: Influence of chemical speciation and plant uptake on radionuclide migration (pp. 81–99). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research.

Blog post
Evans, K. (2017, March 21). The World’s Healthiest Hearts Belong To The Tsimane People Of Bolivia. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-worlds-healthiest-hearts-belong-to-the-tsimane-people-of-bolivia/. 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. (2010). Higher Education: Information on Incentive Compensation Violations Substantiated by the U.S. Department of Education (No. GAO-10-370R). 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
Barrios, G. (2012). Outreach program to address the unmet needs of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans: A grant proposal (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
Murphy, M. J. O. (2016, June 10). Friday File. New York Times, p. C25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Egues 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Bellwood and White 2005; Egues 2005).

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

  • Two authors: (Bellwood and White 2005)
  • Three or more authors: (Krieger et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal titleEuropean Journal on Criminal Policy and Research
AbbreviationEur. J. Crim. Pol. Res.
ISSN (print)0928-1371
ISSN (online)1572-9869
ScopeLaw

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