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

Knapp, S. (2002). Fact and fantasy. The zoology created by our imagination is far outstripped by that of reality. Nature, 415(6871), 479.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sanchez, A., & Golding, I. (2013). Genetic determinants and cellular constraints in noisy gene expression. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6163), 1188–1193.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shahabi, A., Wang, H., & Upmanyu, M. (2014). Shaping van der Waals nanoribbons via torsional constraints: scrolls, folds and supercoils. Scientific Reports, 4, 7004.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tulevski, G. S., Myers, M. B., Hybertsen, M. S., Steigerwald, M. L., & Nuckolls, C. (2005). Formation of catalytic metal-molecule contacts. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5734), 591–594.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DiGrado, B. D., & Thorp, G. A. (2007). The Aboveground Steel Storage Tank Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Besnard, D., Gacek, C., & Jones, C. B. (Eds.). (2006). Structure for Dependability: Computer-Based Systems from an Interdisciplinary Perspective. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Brézillon, P. (2011). A Contextual Methodology for Modelling Real-Time Decision-Making Support. In F. Burstein, P. Brézillon, & A. Zaslavsky (Eds.), Supporting Real Time Decision-Making: The Role of Context in Decision Support on the Move (pp. 65–88). Springer 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 Legal and Criminological Psychology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, July 21). The US Will Lose $2 Trillion By 2030 Thanks To Man-Made Climate Change. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/us-lose-2-trillion-2030-thanks-man-made-climate-change/

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. (1994). Transportation Safety: Opportunities for Enhancing Safety Across Modes (T-RCED-94-120). 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

Herrera, E. C. (2010). Emancipating youth from foster care: A content analysis of existing literature [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Gustines, G. G. (2014, July 21). Comics Sales Rise, in Paper and Pixels. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knapp, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Knapp, 2002; Sanchez & Golding, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sanchez & Golding, 2013)
Three authors: (Shahabi et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Tulevski et al., 2005)

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