How to format your references using the Journal of Threat Assessment and Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Threat Assessment and Management. 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

Kleiner, K. (2006). Crunch time for New Jersey lab. Nature, 440(7088), 1111.

A journal article with 2 authors

van Putten, M. H. P. M., & Levinson, A. (2002). Detecting energy emissions from a rotating black hole. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5561), 1874–1877.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nakada, D., Saunders, T. L., & Morrison, S. J. (2010). Lkb1 regulates cell cycle and energy metabolism in haematopoietic stem cells. Nature, 468(7324), 653–658.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Li, C., Tong, W., Liu, B., Zhang, A., & Li, F. (2014). The -1082A>G polymorphism in promoter region of interleukin-10 and risk of digestive cancer: a meta-analysis. Scientific Reports, 4, 5335.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahmad, S. R., & Cartwright, M. (2014). Laser Ignition of Energetic Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Richert, B. (2016). Management of Ingrowing Nails: Treatment Scenarios and Practical Tips (N. Di Chiacchio, M. Caucanas, & N. G. Di Chiacchio, Eds.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Lerner, N. (2008). Some Facts About the Wick Calculus. In B. Helffer, M. P. Lamoureux, N. Lerner, J. Toft, L. Rodino, & M. W. Wong (Eds.), Pseudo-Differential Operators: Quantization and Signals (pp. 135–174). 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 Threat Assessment and Management.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, November 7). How The Bacteria In Our Gut Affect Our Cravings For Food. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-bacteria-our-gut-affect-our-cravings-food/

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). Highway Infrastructure: Perceptions of Stakeholders on Approaches to Reduce Highway Project Completion Time (GAO-03-398). 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

Demenkoff, J. H. (2014). Evolution and emergence of the masculinities: Epiphanies and epiphenomena of the male athlete and dancer [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Saslow, L. (2008, October 5). Rebate Checks to Lose Their Punch This Year. New York Times, LI6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kleiner, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Kleiner, 2006; van Putten & Levinson, 2002).

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

Two authors: (van Putten & Levinson, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Threat Assessment and Management
Abbreviation	J. Threat Assess. Manag.
ISSN (print)	2169-4842
ISSN (online)	2169-4850
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