How to format your references using the Journal of Experimental Criminology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Experimental Criminology. 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 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

Caldwell, M. (2007). Careers in behavioral science. Neuromarketing careers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5827), 1060–1061.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kind, R., & Yuan, X. (2010). Geophysics. Seismic images of the biggest crash on Earth. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5998), 1479–1480.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weiss, E., Kislev, M. E., & Hartmann, A. (2006). Anthropology. Autonomous cultivation before domestication. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5780), 1608–1610.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Goldberg, M., Stucki, M., Falck, J., D’Amours, D., Rahman, D., Pappin, D., et al. (2003). MDC1 is required for the intra-S-phase DNA damage checkpoint. Nature, 421(6926), 952–956.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ferdjallah, M. (2011). Introduction to Digital Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pande, A. (2013). Embedded Multimedia Security Systems: Algorithms and Architectures. (J. Zambreno, Ed.). London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Anelli, R. (2016). Recycling and Restoration: Adding New Meaning to Historical Buildings Through Minimal Interventions. In A. Condello & S. Lehmann (Eds.), Sustainable Lina: Lina Bo Bardi’s Adaptive Reuse Projects (pp. 97–160). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Experimental Criminology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 9). Ancient Rhino Cousin Reorganizes Mammalian Family Tree. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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. (1992). Army Accounting Adjustments--Aviation Systems Command (No. AFMD-92-103ML). Washington, DC: 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

Aloe-Chase, S. T. (2008). Family member perspectives on collaboration: An exploratory study (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Medellín, R. A., Melnick, D. J., & Pearl, M. C. (2014, May 11). Protect Our Bats. New York Times, p. A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Caldwell 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Caldwell 2007; Kind and Yuan 2010).

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

Two authors: (Kind and Yuan 2010)
Three or more authors: (Goldberg et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Criminology
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Criminol.
ISSN (print)	1573-3750
ISSN (online)	1572-8315
Scope	Law