Citing GTD

All information sourced from the GTD should be acknowledged by the USER and cited as follows:

START (National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism). (2022). Global Terrorism Database 1970 - 2020 [data file]. https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd



Further Reading

LaFree, Gary, Laura Dugan, and Erin Miller. 2015. Putting Terrorism in Context: Lessons from the Global Terrorism Database. London: Routledge.

LaFree, Gary. 2011. Using open source data to counter common myths about terrorism. Pp. 411-442 in Criminologists on Terrorism and Homeland Security. Brian Forst, Jack Greene and Jim Lynch (eds.) Cambridge University Press.

LaFree, Gary. 2010. The Global Terrorism Database: Accomplishments and challenges. Perspectives on Terrorism 4:24-46.

LaFree, Gary and Laura Dugan. 2009. Research on terrorism and countering terrorism. In Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, M. Tonry (ed.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press 38: 413-477.

LaFree, Gary, and Laura Dugan. 2007. Introducing the global terrorism database. Political Violence and Terrorism 19:181-204.