How to format your references using the Journal of Criminal Justice Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Criminal Justice Education. 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

Giessibl, F. J. (2013). Chemistry. Seeing the reaction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6139), 1417–1418.

A journal article with 2 authors

Badcock, C., & Crespi, B. (2008). Battle of the sexes may set the brain. Nature, 454(7208), 1054–1055.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pornillos, O., Ganser-Pornillos, B. K., & Yeager, M. (2011). Atomic-level modelling of the HIV capsid. Nature, 469(7330), 424–427.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Zhang, J., Adrián, F. J., Jahnke, W., Cowan-Jacob, S. W., Li, A. G., Iacob, R. E., Sim, T., Powers, J., Dierks, C., Sun, F., Guo, G.-R., Ding, Q., Okram, B., Choi, Y., Wojciechowski, A., Deng, X., Liu, G., Fendrich, G., Strauss, A., … Gray, N. S. (2010). Targeting Bcr-Abl by combining allosteric with ATP-binding-site inhibitors. Nature, 463(7280), 501–506.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hiltscher, G., Mühlthaler, W., & Smits, J. (2003). Industrial Pigging Technology. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Elleithy, K., & Sobh, T. (Eds.). (2013). Innovations and Advances in Computer, Information, Systems Sciences, and Engineering (Vol. 152). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, J., Man, H., Yen, N. Y., Jin, Q., & Shih, T. K. (2010). Dynamic Navigation for Personalized Learning Activities Based on Gradual Adaption Recommendation Model. In X. Luo, M. Spaniol, L. Wang, Q. Li, W. Nejdl, & W. Zhang (Eds.), Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2010: 9th International Conference, Shanghai, China, December 8-10, 2010. Proceedings (pp. 31–40). 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 Journal of Criminal Justice Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 27). Meet The Glow-In-The-Dark Shark. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/glow-dark-shark/

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. (1975). Federal Materials Research and Development (094633). 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

Nguyen, C. (2010). A psychoeducational support group for Vietnamese American family caregivers of stroke survivors: Grant writing thesis proposal [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

Paulson, M. (2017, October 10). Springsteen Racks Up A Big Broadway Week. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Giessibl, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Badcock & Crespi, 2008; Giessibl, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Badcock & Crespi, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Criminal Justice Education
Abbreviation	J. Crim. Justice Educ.
ISSN (print)	1051-1253
ISSN (online)	1745-9117
Scope	Education Law