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

Arthur, Wallace. “The Emerging Conceptual Framework of Evolutionary Developmental Biology.” Nature 415, no. 6873 (February 14, 2002): 757–64.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krueger, Alan B., and Arthur A. Stone. “Psychology and Economics. Progress in Measuring Subjective Well-Being.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 346, no. 6205 (October 3, 2014): 42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Guang, Changhong Liu, and Shoushan Fan. “Directly Measuring of Thermal Pulse Transfer in One-Dimensional Highly Aligned Carbon Nanotubes.” Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 2549.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Li, C. K., F. H. Séguin, J. A. Frenje, M. Rosenberg, R. D. Petrasso, P. A. Amendt, J. A. Koch, et al. “Charged-Particle Probing of x-Ray-Driven Inertial-Fusion Implosions.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 327, no. 5970 (March 5, 2010): 1231–35.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vignes, Alain. Extractive Metallurgy 2. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

Otieno, Herick O. Energy Resources in East Africa: Opportunities and Challenges. Edited by Joseph L. Awange. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Law, Bradley, Kirsty J. Park, and Michael J. Lacki. “Insectivorous Bats and Silviculture: Balancing Timber Production and Bat Conservation.” In Bats in the Anthropocene: Conservation of Bats in a Changing World, edited by Christian C. Voigt and Tigga Kingston, 105–50. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

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

Andrews, Robin. “These Are The World’s Most Empathetic Countries.” IFLScience. IFLScience, October 18, 2016.

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. “Technology Transfer: Reporting Requirements for Federally Sponsored Inventions Need Revision.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, August 12, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Slotnick, Adam. “Status Symbols in Triathlete Culture.” Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2012.

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

Biillard, Mary. “Listen Up, but Good.” New York Times, May 6, 2010.

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