How to format your references using the Legal and Criminological Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Legal and Criminological 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

Boyer, P. (2008). Being human: Religion: bound to believe? Nature, 455(7216), 1038–1039.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schramke, V., & Allshire, R. (2003). Hairpin RNAs and retrotransposon LTRs effect RNAi and chromatin-based gene silencing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5636), 1069–1074.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hicks, W. M., Kim, M., & Haber, J. E. (2010). Increased mutagenesis and unique mutation signature associated with mitotic gene conversion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5987), 82–85.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Martin, P. R., Lee, B. B., White, A. J., Solomon, S. G., & Rüttiger, L. (2001). Chromatic sensitivity of ganglion cells in the peripheral primate retina. Nature, 410(6831), 933–936.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hines, M. (2015). Marketing implant dentistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mukherjee, S., Aarts, R. M., Roovers, R., Widdershoven, F., & Ouwerkerk, M. (Eds.). (2006). AmIware Hardware Technology Drivers of Ambient Intelligence (Vol. 5). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Cheah, L., Evans, C., Bandivadekar, A., & Heywood, J. (2009). Factor of Two: Halving the Fuel Consumption of New U.S. Automobiles by 2035. In J. S. Cannon & D. Sperling (Eds.), Reducing Climate Impacts in the Transportation Sector (pp. 49–71). Springer Netherlands.

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 Legal and Criminological Psychology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, May 23). Here’s What Scientists Found When They Opened A Cave That Had Been Isolated For More Than Five Million Years. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/prehistoric-cave-still-holds-some-worlds-weirdest-creatures/

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. (2000). Computer Security: FAA Is Addressing Personnel Weaknesses, But Further Action Is Required (AIMD-00-169). 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

Daysal, N. M. (2009). The effects of uninsurance on hospitals and patient health [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Schilling, M. K. (2017, February 9). The Look of ’70s SoHo — Captured in One Apartment. New York Times, M2240.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boyer, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Boyer, 2008; Schramke & Allshire, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Schramke & Allshire, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Martin et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Legal and Criminological Psychology
Abbreviation	Legal Criminol. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1355-3259
ISSN (online)	2044-8333
Scope	Pathology and Forensic Medicine Applied Psychology