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

McGaugh S (2007) Astronomy. Seeing through dark matter. Science 317:607–608

A journal article with 2 authors

Liberles SD, Buck LB (2006) A second class of chemosensory receptors in the olfactory epithelium. Nature 442:645–650

A journal article with 3 authors

Noda S, Chutinan A, Imada M (2000) Trapping and emission of photons by a single defect in a photonic bandgap structure. Nature 407:608–610

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kabarowski JH, Zhu K, Le LQ, et al (2001) Lysophosphatidylcholine as a ligand for the immunoregulatory receptor G2A. Science 293:702–705

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chaskalson M (2011) The Mindful Workplace. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Morschett D (2009) Strategic International Management: Text and Cases. Gabler, Wiesbaden

A chapter in an edited book

Yamanaka N, Hou Q-C, Du S (2014) Vegetation of the Loess Plateau. In: Tsunekawa A, Liu G, Yamanaka N, Du S (eds) Restoration and Development of the Degraded Loess Plateau, China. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 49–60

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

Hamilton K (2016) Why Time Seems To Go By More Quickly As We Get Older. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-time-seems-to-go-by-more-quickly-as-we-get-older/. 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 (1989) ADP Modernization: IRS’ Automated Examination System--Troubled Past, Uncertain Future. 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

Martinez JC (2015) Theoretically tested remediation in response to insect resistance to Bt corn and Bt cotton: A new paradigm. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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

Itzkoff D, Kelly D (2005) Music Chronicle. New York Times 724

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McGaugh 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Liberles and Buck 2006; McGaugh 2007).

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

Two authors: (Liberles and Buck 2006)
Three or more authors: (Kabarowski et al. 2001)

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