How to format your references using the Global Crime citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Global Crime. 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	Download the output style file
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

Kouwenhoven, L. “One Photon Seen by One Electron.” Nature 403, no. 6768 (January 27, 2000): 374–75.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peacock, Elizabeth, and David L. Garshelis. “Comment on ‘On the Regulation of Populations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, and Insects’ IV.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 313, no. 5783 (July 7, 2006): 45; author reply 45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wellman, Charles H., Peter L. Osterloff, and Uzma Mohiuddin. “Fragments of the Earliest Land Plants.” Nature 425, no. 6955 (September 18, 2003): 282–85.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Shuster, David L., Todd A. Ehlers, Margaret E. Rusmoren, and Kenneth A. Farley. “Rapid Glacial Erosion at 1.8 Ma Revealed by 4He/3He Thermochronometry.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 310, no. 5754 (December 9, 2005): 1668–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kumar, Vijay. Mobile Database Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006.

An edited book

Aspin, David N., and Judith D. Chapman, eds. Values Education and Lifelong Learning: Principles, Policies, Programmes. Vol. 10. Lifelong Learning Book Series. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Saraswat, Vijay. “Concurrent Constraint Programming Research Programmes – Redux.” In Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming: 20th International Conference, CP 2014, Lyon, France, September 8-12, 2014. Proceedings, edited by Barry O’Sullivan, 6–8. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

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 Global Crime.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. “Scientists Just Released The World’s Largest Digital Sky Survey.” IFLScience. IFLScience, December 20, 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-just-released-the-worlds-largest-digital-sky-survey/.

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. “Examination into the Increase in Cost of the Lunar-Roving Vehicles Being Manufactured by the Boeing Company.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, July 2, 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Turkel, Catherine C. “Female Leaders’ 360-Degree Self -Perception Accuracy for Leadership Competencies and Skills.” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2008.

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

Candaele, Kelly. “Caminiti’s Baseball Legacy.” New York Times, October 17, 2004.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Crime
ISSN (print)	1744-0572
ISSN (online)	1744-0580
Scope	Law Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations