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

Wineland, D. (2011). Norman Ramsey (1915-2011). Nature, 480(7376), 182.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morris, R. G. M., & Takeuchi, T. (2012). Neuroscience. The imaginary mind of a mouse. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6075), 1455–1456.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiang, C., Chan, C.-K., & Wang, J. (2014). Proposal and numerical study of ultra-compact active hybrid plasmonic resonator for sub-wavelength lasing applications. Scientific reports, 4, 3720.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Schmidt, J., Brilliantov, N., Spahn, F., & Kempf, S. (2008). Slow dust in Enceladus’ plume from condensation and wall collisions in tiger stripe fractures. Nature, 451(7179), 685–688.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khouw, M. C., & Guthner, M. W. (2016). The Options Edge + Free Trial. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Benhamou, F. (Ed.). (2006). Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2006: 12th International Conference, CP 2006, Nantes, France, September 25-29, 2006. Proceedings (Vol. 4204). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Limaye, S. S., & Rengel, M. (2013). Atmospheric Circulation and Dynamics. In L. Bengtsson, R.-M. Bonnet, D. Grinspoon, S. Koumoutsaris, S. Lebonnois, & D. Titov (Eds.), Towards Understanding the Climate of Venus: Applications of Terrestrial Models to Our Sister Planet (pp. 55–70). New York, NY: 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

Luntz, S. (2015, February 26). Two Mysterious White Spots Observed On Ceres. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/ceres-white-spots-are-multiplying/. 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. (1995). Student Loan Defaults: Department of Education Limitations in Sanctioning Problem Schools (No. HEHS-95-99). 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

Florio, M. L. (2012). Assessing the impacts of knowing natural team player styles on team satisfaction and cohesion (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, February 2). Film Series. New York Times, p. C24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wineland 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Morris and Takeuchi 2012; Wineland 2011).

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

Two authors: (Morris and Takeuchi 2012)
Three or more authors: (Schmidt et al. 2008)

About the journal

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