How to format your references using the Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism. 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

Smaglik, P. (2002). Lessons in career planning. Nature, 418(6898), 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chemla, Y. R., & Ha, T. (2014). Biophysics. Ultraslow relaxation of confined DNA. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6195), 380–381.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, I. A., Roberts, R. W., & Szostak, J. W. (2004). The emergence of competition between model protocells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5689), 1474–1476.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hua, Y. H., Wu, C. Y., Sargsyan, K., & Lim, C. (2014). Sequence-motif detection of NAD(P)-binding proteins: discovery of a unique antibacterial drug target. Scientific Reports, 4, 6471.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marcus, Y. (2012). Supercritical Water. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Otto, F., & Lutz, M. P. (Eds.). (2012). Early Gastrointestinal Cancers (Vol. 196). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Aronoff, C. E., McClure, S. L., & Ward, J. L. (2011). Preparing Your Business for Succession. In S. L. McClure & J. L. Ward (Eds.), Family Business Succession: The Final Test of Greatness (pp. 27–32). Palgrave Macmillan US.

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 Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2014, October 13). Could Telepathy Exist In Real Life? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-close-are-scientists-making-telepathy-reality/

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. (2003). Airline Ticketing: Impact of Changes in the Airline Ticket Distribution Industry (GAO-03-749). 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

Li, X. (2008). Two essays on “mining market basket data: Models and applications in marketing” [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington 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

Otis, J. (2017, January 15). Keeping a Sunny Spirit in the Face of Hardship. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Chemla & Ha, 2014; Smaglik, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Chemla & Ha, 2014)
Three authors: (Chen et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Hua et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism
ISSN (print)	1833-5330
ISSN (online)	2159-5364
Scope	Law Political Science and International Relations