How to format your references using the Legal and Criminological Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Legal and Criminological 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

de Duve, C. (2010). The joy of discovery. Nature, 467(7317), S5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tomasetti, C., & Vogelstein, B. (2015). Cancer etiology. Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6217), 78–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ang, Y. S., Ma, Z., & Zhang, C. (2014). Chiral-like tunneling of electrons in two-dimensional semiconductors with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Scientific Reports, 4, 3780.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tashiro, A., Sandler, V. M., Toni, N., Zhao, C., & Gage, F. H. (2006). NMDA-receptor-mediated, cell-specific integration of new neurons in adult dentate gyrus. Nature, 442(7105), 929–933.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, D. A., van de Waterbeemd, H., & Walker, D. K. (2006). Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism in Drug Design: SMITH: PHARMACOKINETICS AND METABOLISM IN DRUG DESIGN O-BK. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Bernard, A., & Tichkiewitch, S. (Eds.). (2008). Methods and Tools for Effective Knowledge Life-Cycle-Management. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wehrmeister, M. A., & Berkenbrock, G. R. (2013). Automatic Execution of Test Cases on UML Models of Embedded Systems. In G. Schirner, M. Götz, A. Rettberg, M. C. Zanella, & F. J. Rammig (Eds.), Embedded Systems: Design, Analysis and Verification: 4th IFIP TC 10 International Embedded Systems Symposium, IESS 2013, Paderborn, Germany, June 17-19, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 39–48). 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 Legal and Criminological Psychology.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, November 10). Here’s Why Some People Don’t Like Music. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2000). Critical Infrastructure Protection: National Plan for Information Systems Protection (AIMD-00-90R). 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

Hall, K. E. (2012). Transformational leadership practices of African-American ministers at predominantly African American Churches of Christ in Nashville, TN [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Baker, L. (2007, November 14). Near Seattle, Tribal Casinos Lead to Even Bigger Bets. New York Times, C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (de Duve, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (de Duve, 2010; Tomasetti & Vogelstein, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Tomasetti & Vogelstein, 2015)
Three authors: (Ang et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Tashiro et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Legal and Criminological Psychology
Abbreviation	Legal Criminol. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1355-3259
ISSN (online)	2044-8333
Scope	Pathology and Forensic Medicine Applied Psychology