How to format your references using the Trends in Organized Crime citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Trends in Organized Crime. 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

Martin A (2012) Oceans.The seasonal smorgasbord of the seas. Science 337:46–47

A journal article with 2 authors

Povolotskaya IS, Kondrashov FA (2010) Sequence space and the ongoing expansion of the protein universe. Nature 465:922–926

A journal article with 3 authors

Guiteras R, Levinsohn J, Mobarak AM (2015) Sanitation subsidies. Encouraging sanitation investment in the developing world: a cluster-randomized trial. Science 348:903–906

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Corder R, Douthwaite JA, Lees DM, et al (2001) Endothelin-1 synthesis reduced by red wine. Nature 414:863–864

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hersent O, Petit J-P, Gurle D (2005) Beyond VoIP Protocols. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Lippens P-E, Jumas J-C, Génin J-MR (eds) (2007) ICAME 2005: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ICAME 2005) held in Montpellier, France, 4–9 September 2005 Volume II (Part III–V/V). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Nesterenko MV, Katrich VA, Penkin YM, et al (2011) Generalized Method of Induced EMF for Investigation of the Characteristics of Impedance Vibrators. In: Katrich VA, Penkin YM, Dakhov VM, Berdnik SL (eds) Thin Impedance Vibrators: Theory and Applications. Springer, New York, NY, pp 113–154

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 Trends in Organized Crime.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) Human Medicine And Agricultural Chemicals Found In The Blood Of Turtles. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/human-medicine-and-agricultural-chemicals-found-in-the-blood-of-turtles/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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) District of Columbia: Performance Report Shows Continued Progress. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Coyle M (2017) Pre-Service School Counselor’s Perception of Professional Identity Development During Internship. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Glasser SB (2017) Our Putin. New York Times SR1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Martin 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Povolotskaya and Kondrashov 2010; Martin 2012).

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

Two authors: (Povolotskaya and Kondrashov 2010)
Three or more authors: (Corder et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Trends in Organized Crime
Abbreviation	Trends Organ. Crime
ISSN (print)	1084-4791
ISSN (online)	1936-4830
Scope	Law