How to format your references using the Journal of Experimental Criminology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Experimental 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

Burkov, A. (2015). PHYSICS. Chiral anomaly without relativity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6259), 378–379.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marotzke, J., & Forster, P. M. (2015). Forcing, feedback and internal variability in global temperature trends. Nature, 517(7536), 565–570.

A journal article with 3 authors

O’D Alexander, C. M., Boss, A. P., & Carlson, R. W. (2001). The early evolution of the inner solar system: a meteoritic perspective. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5527), 64–68.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sakatani, T., Kaneda, A., Iacobuzio-Donahue, C. A., Carter, M. G., de Boom Witzel, S., Okano, H., et al. (2005). Loss of imprinting of Igf2 alters intestinal maturation and tumorigenesis in mice. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5717), 1976–1978.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hahn, A., Behle, B., Lischewski, D., & Rein, W. (2002). Produktionstechnische Praxis. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Paranthaman, M. P., Wong-Ng, W., & Bhattacharya, R. N. (Eds.). (2016). Semiconductor Materials for Solar Photovoltaic Cells (1st ed. 2016., Vol. 218). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ainbinder, D., Godin, B., & Touitou, E. (2016). Ethosomes: Enhanced Delivery of Drugs to and Across the Skin. In N. Dragicevic & H. I. Maibach (Eds.), Percutaneous Penetration Enhancers Chemical Methods in Penetration Enhancement: Nanocarriers (pp. 61–75). 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 Experimental Criminology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017, May 19). Top 10 New Species Discovered 2017. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/top-10-new-species-discovered-2017/. 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. (2000). Gender Equity: Men’s and Women’s Participation in Higher Education (No. GAO-01-128). 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

Malekian, A. (2009). Combinatorial problems in online advertising (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Risen, J., Fink, S., & Savage, C. (2017, March 9). State Secrets Privilege Invoked to Block Testimony in C.I.A. Torture Case. New York Times, p. A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Burkov 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Burkov 2015; Marotzke and Forster 2015).

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

Two authors: (Marotzke and Forster 2015)
Three or more authors: (Sakatani et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Criminology
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Criminol.
ISSN (print)	1573-3750
ISSN (online)	1572-8315
Scope	Law