How to format your references using the Justice Quarterly citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Justice Quarterly. 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

Centola, D. (2010). The spread of behavior in an online social network experiment. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5996), 1194–1197.

A journal article with 2 authors

Das, R. M., & Storey, K. G. (2014). Apical abscission alters cell polarity and dismantles the primary cilium during neurogenesis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6167), 200–204.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hwang, C.-S., Shemorry, A., & Varshavsky, A. (2010). N-terminal acetylation of cellular proteins creates specific degradation signals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5968), 973–977.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Fung, E., Wong, W. W., Suen, J. K., Bulter, T., Lee, S.-G., & Liao, J. C. (2005). A synthetic gene-metabolic oscillator. Nature, 435(7038), 118–122.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wiesmann, U., Choi, I. S., & Dombrowski, E.-M. (2006). Fundamentals of Biological Wastewater Treatment. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Müller, W. E. G., & Grachev, M. A. (Eds.). (2009). Biosilica in Evolution, Morphogenesis, and Nanobiotechnology: Case Study Lake Baikal (Vol. 47). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gao, Q., Zhang, W., & Tian, F. (2015). Transformation to Daily Routine: Reform and Governance. In W. Zhang & F. Tian (Eds.), The Road to the Rule of Law in Modern China (pp. 99–133). 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 Justice Quarterly.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 11). New Analysis Of Sunspot History Challenges Climate Skeptics. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1990). Monte Canfield, Jr., 1974-1978 (OP-17-OH). 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

Pavuluri, V. K. (2014). Field Oriented Control of Induction Motors Based on DSP Controller [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Walsh, M. W. (2016, December 22). Pension System Move May Squeeze Taxpayers. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Centola, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Centola, 2010; Das & Storey, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Das & Storey, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Fung et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Justice Quarterly
Abbreviation	Justice Q.
ISSN (print)	0741-8825
ISSN (online)	1745-9109
Scope	Pathology and Forensic Medicine Law