How to format your references using the Global Crime citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Global 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Morris, Mark. “Astronomy. Galactic Prominences on the Rise.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 314, no. 5796 (October 6, 2006): 70–71.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, Dongbo, and Alejandro Fernandez-Martinez. “Materials Science. Order from Disorder.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 337, no. 6096 (August 17, 2012): 812–13.

A journal article with 3 authors

Frank, Filipp, Nahum Sonenberg, and Bhushan Nagar. “Structural Basis for 5’-Nucleotide Base-Specific Recognition of Guide RNA by Human AGO2.” Nature 465, no. 7299 (June 10, 2010): 818–22.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Veaute, Xavier, Josette Jeusset, Christine Soustelle, Stephen C. Kowalczykowski, Eric Le Cam, and Francis Fabre. “The Srs2 Helicase Prevents Recombination by Disrupting Rad51 Nucleoprotein Filaments.” Nature 423, no. 6937 (May 15, 2003): 309–12.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ippolito, Louis J., Jr. Satellite Communications Systems Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2017.

An edited book

Park, James J. (jong Hyuk), Hojjat Adeli, Namje Park, and Isaac Woungang, eds. Mobile, Ubiquitous, and Intelligent Computing: MUSIC 2013. Vol. 274. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Kearney, Keven T., and Francesco Torelli. “The SLA Model.” In Service Level Agreements for Cloud Computing, edited by Philipp Wieder, Joe M. Butler, Wolfgang Theilmann, and Ramin Yahyapour, 43–67. New York, NY: Springer, 2011.

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 Global Crime.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. “Is Eating Burnt Toast Or Crispy Potatoes A Potential Cancer Risk?” IFLScience. IFLScience, January 23, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/is-eating-burnt-toast-or-crispy-potatoes-a-potential-cancer-risk/.

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. “Transportation Programs: Challenges Facing the Department of Transportation and Congress.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, March 10, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Watson, Daniel Jason. “How the Lead Systems Integrator Experience Should Enhance Efforts to Rebuild the Defense Acquisition Workforce.” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2010.

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

Vecsey, George. “U.S. Grateful to Be Part Of a Sport’s Growth.” New York Times, August 13, 2011.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Global Crime
ISSN (print)	1744-0572
ISSN (online)	1744-0580
Scope	Law Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations