Reference Style
Please refer to the Chicago Manual of Style for situations
not listed here.
General Format for Books
Author (last name, first name). Date of publication. Title
in Italics. City and state of publication: publisher.
Jones, John. 1992. History of Criminology. New York:
Houghton Mifflin.
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General Format for Periodicals
Author (last name, first name). Date of publication. "Title
of Article." Title of Periodical in Italics volume
number(issue number): page number.
Jones, John. June 1992. "Crime in the Community." Journal
of Crime 10(3): 3-12.
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General Format for OVC and Other Government Series
Author (last name, first name). Date of publication. Title
of Publication in Italics. Title of Series in Initial
Caps, volume and issue number (if applicable). City and state
of publication: publisher.
Visher, Christy A. September 1992. Pretrial Drug Testing.
Research in Brief. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice,
National Institute of Justice.
Office for Victims of Crime. August 1998. New Directions
From the Field: Victims' Rights and Services for the
21st Century. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice.
Note: Do not name the Government Printing Office
as a publisher.
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Author Issues
Multiple Authors
List the first author's last name first, but list the
other authors first name first.
Hillsman, Sally T. and Laura A. Winterfield.
No Authors
Place the editors' names in the author slot if no authors
are identified.
Flannegan, T.J. and K.M. Jamieson, eds.
If an agency or institution is both the author and publisher,
use the agency name as the author and any umbrella institution
as the publisher.
Office for Victims of Crime. August 1998. New Directions
From the Field: Victims' Rights and Services for the
21st Century. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice.
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Special Situations
Chapters in a Book
Citations of chapters also must include names of authors and
editors.
Author (last name, first name). Date of publication. "Title
of Chapter in Quotation Marks and Initial Caps." In Title
of Publication, by or ed. (author or editor's name
beginning with first name). City and state of publication: Publisher.
Robert Smith. 1990. "Crime and the Cities." In A
Review of Criminal Justice, eds. Ellen Tomes and Edward
Bock. New York: Wiley.
Unpublished Manuscripts
Treat unpublished material as though it were an article in
a periodical, with the title of the document in quotation marks.
Brown, William. 1992. "Intermediate Sanctions." Unpublished
report. National Institute of Justice, CX-000-000.
Note: Always provide the grant number when citing a Federal
Government source.
No Date Provided
Brown, William. n.d. "Intermediate Sanctions." Washington,
DC: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice.
Web Site References
Provide the author's name (last name, first name) if
available. "The Title of the Document" and title
of the full work, if applicable. Name of the organization that
placed it on the Web. Web site URL. Accessed date (provide date
material was gathered).
Volunteer Center of Marin. "A Guide to Organizing Neighborhoods
for Preparedness, Response, and Recovery." American Red
Cross, www.sff.org/about/publications/emergency_plan.doc.
Accessed March 3, 2004.
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