How to format your references using the Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Binder, P.-M. (2008). Mathematics. Frustration in complexity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5874), 322–323.

A journal article with 2 authors

Arnold, K., & Zuberbühler, K. (2006). Language evolution: semantic combinations in primate calls. Nature, 441(7091), 303.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hines, P. J., Wible, B., & McCartney, M. (2010). Science, language, and literacy. Learning to read, reading to learn. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5977), 447.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Halic, M., Blau, M., Becker, T., Mielke, T., Pool, M. R., Wild, K., et al. (2006). Following the signal sequence from ribosomal tunnel exit to signal recognition particle. Nature, 444(7118), 507–511.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fullman, S. H. (2010). Increasing Alpha with Options. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kan, J. H. (2007). Pediatric and Adolescent Musculoskeletal MRI: A Case-Based Approach. (P. K. Kleinman, Ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ruet, J. (2014). Indian Firms in World Production: The State, Markets, and Innovation. In X. Richet, V. Delteil, & P. Dieuaide (Eds.), Strategies of Multinational Corporations and Social Regulations: European and Asian Perspectives (pp. 77–91). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, November 21). Astronomers Just Discovered Something Orbiting Our Galaxy. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-just-discovered-something-orbiting-our-galaxy/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1990). Amtrak: Limited Income From the Revenue Enhancement Program (No. RCED-90-76). Washington, DC: 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

Garlapally, V. (2017). Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Impact on Metamorphosis and Thyroid Development in African Clawed Frogs (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Barron, J. (2016, October 30). A Piece of Film History, Hidden in a Home Movie. New York Times, p. A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Binder 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Arnold and Zuberbühler 2006; Binder 2008).

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

Two authors: (Arnold and Zuberbühler 2006)
Three or more authors: (Halic et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology
Abbreviation	Adapt. Human Behav. Physiol.
ISSN (online)	2198-7335
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