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. (2004). The best years of our lives. Nature, 430(6995), 121.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kneller, E. A., & van Keken, P. E. (2007). Trench-parallel flow and seismic anisotropy in the Mariana and Andean subduction systems. Nature, 450(7173), 1222–1225.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ma, J., Bai, L., & Wang, M. D. (2013). Transcription under torsion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6140), 1580–1583.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Caixeta, F. V., Cornélio, A. M., Scheffer-Teixeira, R., Ribeiro, S., & Tort, A. B. L. (2013). Ketamine alters oscillatory coupling in the hippocampus. Scientific Reports, 3, 2348.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Searle, S. R. (1997). Linear Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Geunes, J., Pardalos, P. M., & Romeijn, H. E. (Eds.). (2005). Supply Chain Management: Models, Applications, and Research Directions (Vol. 62). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Bosse, T., Jonker, C. M., Los, S. A., van der Torre, L., & Treur, J. (2006). Formalisation and Analysis of the Temporal Dynamics of Conditioning. In J. P. Müller & F. Zambonelli (Eds.), Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VI: 6th International Workshop, AOSE 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 25, 2005. Revised and Invited Papers (pp. 54–68). 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 Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, August 17). Scientists Have Found A Meteorite From The Edge Of The Solar System. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-have-found-a-meteorite-from-the-edge-of-the-solar-system/

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. (1987). ADP Systems: Concerns About DOD’s Composite Health Care System Development Contracts (IMTEC-87-25). 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

Kaminsky, E. (2006). Schumann’s Op. 14: Original, Revised and Edited (“Concerto without Orchestra” versus Piano Sonata No. 3) [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Dyson, M. E. (2017, October 21). Athletes Have Always Led the Way. New York Times, SR2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Kneller & van Keken, 2007; Smaglik, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Kneller & van Keken, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Caixeta et al., 2013)

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