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

Fiorillo, C. D. (2013). Two dimensions of value: dopamine neurons represent reward but not aversiveness. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6145), 546–549.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rakoff-Nahoum, S., & Medzhitov, R. (2007). Regulation of spontaneous intestinal tumorigenesis through the adaptor protein MyD88. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5834), 124–127.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shubin, N. H., Daeschler, E. B., & Coates, M. I. (2004). The early evolution of the tetrapod humerus. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5667), 90–93.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Brileya, K. A., Connolly, J. M., Downey, C., Gerlach, R., & Fields, M. W. (2013). Taxis toward hydrogen gas by Methanococcus maripaludis. Scientific Reports, 3, 3140.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lafontaine, E., & Comet, M. (2016). Nanothermites. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ranjan, S., Dasgupta, N., & Lichtfouse, E. (Eds.). (2016). Nanoscience in Food and Agriculture 3 (Vol. 23). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Scales, R., & Buman, M. P. (2016). Paradigms of Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness. In J. I. Mechanick & R. F. Kushner (Eds.), Lifestyle Medicine: A Manual for Clinical Practice (pp. 29–40). Springer International Publishing.

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

Davis, J. (2016, July 22). Wild Birds And Humans Talk To Each Other To Team Up And Find Honey. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wild-birds-and-humans-talk-to-each-other-to-team-up-and-find-honey/

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. (2002). VA Information Technology: Progress Made, but Continued Management Attention Is Key to Achieving Results (GAO-02-369T). 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

Burnley, T. (2012). Psychotherapist as Modern-Day Shaman [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

Kishkovsky, S. (2012, April 23). Thousands In Moscow Rally to Call By Patriarch. New York Times, A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fiorillo, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Fiorillo, 2013; Rakoff-Nahoum & Medzhitov, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Rakoff-Nahoum & Medzhitov, 2007)
Three authors: (Shubin et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Brileya et al., 2013)

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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