How to format your references using the Journal of Criminal Justice Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Criminal Justice Education. 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

Yu, H. (2000). Et in articulo mortis. Nature, 405(6782), 21.

A journal article with 2 authors

Egnatchik, R. A., & DeBerardinis, R. J. (2015). Metabolism: Growth in the fat lane. Nature, 520(7546), 165–166.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, J., Wang, B., & Qiu, H. (2014). Coalescence and breakup of oppositely charged droplets. Scientific Reports, 4, 7123.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Calais, E., Mattioli, G., DeMets, C., Nocquet, J.-M., Stein, S., Newman, A., & Rydelek, P. (2005). Seismology: tectonic strain in plate interiors? Nature, 438(7070), E9-10; discussion E10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gable, J., & Herrmann, T. (2016). Counselling Skills for Dietitians. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hvoslef-Eide, A. K., & Preil, W. (Eds.). (2005). Liquid Culture Systems for in vitro Plant Propagation. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Guicciardi, M. E., & Gores, G. J. (2009). The Death Receptor Pathway. In Z. Dong & X.-M. Yin (Eds.), Essentials of Apoptosis: A Guide for Basic and Clinical Research (pp. 119–150). Humana Press.

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 Journal of Criminal Justice Education.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, March 6). New Evidence Plants Can “Think” And Make Decisions Based On Possible Future Risks. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1974). Procurement Equipment for St. Louis Postal Data Center (B-180235). 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

Roan, R. (2017). Depth and Digital in Conversation: Practicing Marriage and Family Therapy Directly With Video Game Avatars [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2007, December 4). Justices Express Skepticism in a Discrimination Case. New York Times, A26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yu, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Egnatchik & DeBerardinis, 2015; Yu, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Egnatchik & DeBerardinis, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Calais et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Criminal Justice Education
Abbreviation	J. Crim. Justice Educ.
ISSN (print)	1051-1253
ISSN (online)	1745-9117
Scope	Education Law