How to format your references using the Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology. 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

Rankin, C. H. (2002). Neuroscience. A bite to remember. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5573), 1624–1625.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lau, H., & Maniscalco, B. (2010). Neuroscience. Should confidence be trusted? Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5998), 1478–1479.

A journal article with 3 authors

Amodeo, G. A., Rudolph, M. J., & Tong, L. (2007). Crystal structure of the heterotrimer core of Saccharomyces cerevisiae AMPK homologue SNF1. Nature, 449(7161), 492–495.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Barluenga, M., Stölting, K. N., Salzburger, W., Muschick, M., & Meyer, A. (2006). Sympatric speciation in Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fish. Nature, 439(7077), 719–723.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang, J.-J. (2014). Hydraulic Fracturing in Earth-Rock Fill DAMS. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Tong, L. (2010). Subwavelength and Nanometer Diameter Optical Fibers. (M. Sumetsky, Ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Komorowski, T., Landim, C., & Olla, S. (2012). The Simple Exclusion Process. In C. Landim & S. Olla (Eds.), Fluctuations in Markov Processes: Time Symmetry and Martingale Approximation (pp. 155–197). 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 Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 19). Baboons Don’t Play Follow The Leader – They’re Democratic Travellers. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baboons-don-t-play-follow-leader-they-re-democratic-travellers/

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. (1991). Social Security: Telephone Access to Local Field Offices (No. HRD-91-112). 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

Funderburk, J. (2010). Modern Variation in Predation Intensity: Constraints on Assessing Predator-Prey Relationships in Paleoecologic Reconstructions (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Photographs by GEORGE ETHEREDGE for THE NEW YORK TIMES. (2017, February 10). Fire Escapes. New York Times, p. RE15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology
Abbreviation	J. Dev. Life Course Criminol.
ISSN (print)	2199-4641
ISSN (online)	2199-465X
Scope