How to format your references using the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology citation style

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

Kaiser J (2015) What does a disease deserve? Science 350:900–902

A journal article with 2 authors

Zegerman P, Diffley JFX (2007) Phosphorylation of Sld2 and Sld3 by cyclin-dependent kinases promotes DNA replication in budding yeast. Nature 445:281–285

A journal article with 3 authors

Dewar JM, Budzowska M, Walter JC (2015) The mechanism of DNA replication termination in vertebrates. Nature 525:345–350

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hughes ID, Däne M, Ernst A, et al (2007) Lanthanide contraction and magnetism in the heavy rare earth elements. Nature 446:650–653

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Searle SR (1997) Linear Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Morlini I, Minerva T, Vichi M (eds) (2015) Advances in Statistical Models for Data Analysis, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Rohan JF, Thompson D (2014) Frontiers of Cu Electrodeposition and Electroless Plating for On-chip Interconnects. In: Kondo K, Akolkar RN, Barkey DP, Yokoi M (eds) Copper Electrodeposition for Nanofabrication of Electronics Devices. Springer, New York, NY, pp 99–113

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 Police and Criminal Psychology.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Climate Warming is Turning Mummies into Black Ooze. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2017) NASA Commercial Crew Program: Schedule Pressure Increases as Contractors Delay Key Events. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lindeboom TN (2014) A new home for transitioning youth: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Barron J (2016) Once Ordered Removed, Statue Is Now Embraced by Church. New York Times A16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kaiser 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Zegerman and Diffley 2007; Kaiser 2015).

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

Two authors: (Zegerman and Diffley 2007)
Three or more authors: (Hughes et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Police Crim. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0882-0783
ISSN (online)	1936-6469
Scope	Applied Psychology Law