How to format your references using the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology citation style

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

Robinson K (2006) Personal finance. Making the most of a good thing. Science 313:1456–1457

A journal article with 2 authors

Bourc’his D, Bestor TH (2004) Meiotic catastrophe and retrotransposon reactivation in male germ cells lacking Dnmt3L. Nature 431:96–99

A journal article with 3 authors

Bryden HL, McDonagh EL, King BA (2003) Changes in ocean water mass properties: oscillations or trends? Science 300:2086–2088

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yang Y, Kim AH, Yamada T, et al (2009) A Cdc20-APC ubiquitin signaling pathway regulates presynaptic differentiation. Science 326:575–578

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Venkat S, Baird S (2016) Liquidity Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sirgy MJ, Rahtz D, Swain D (eds) (2006) Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases II. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Pascual TNB, Ros S, Engel-Hills P, Chhem RK (2012) Medical Competency in Postgraduate Medical Training Programs. In: Hibbert KM, Chhem RK, Deven T van, Wang S-C (eds) Radiology Education: The Evaluation and Assessment of Clinical Competence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 29–45

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 Police and Criminal Psychology.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Hurricane Matthew Unearthed These Hidden Civil War Cannonballs In South Carolina. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/hurricane-matthew-unearthed-these-hidden-civil-war-cannonballs-in-south-carolina/. 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 (2015) Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority: Steps Taken to Address Financial Management and Safety Recommendations, but Financial Management Internal Controls Need Strengthening. 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

Jernigan MB (2013) Use of uprooted invasive buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare ) parent plants as thatch to reduce progeny seedling emergence. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Saslow L (2007) Nassau County Buys Farm Development Rights. New York Times 14LI2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robinson 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Bourc’his and Bestor 2004; Robinson 2006).

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

Two authors: (Bourc’his and Bestor 2004)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
Abbreviation	J. Police Crim. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0882-0783
ISSN (online)	1936-6469
Scope	Applied Psychology Law