How to format your references using the Aggression and Violent Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aggression and Violent Behavior. 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	Download the output style file
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

Smith, C. H. (2006). Reflections on Wallace. Nature, 443(7107), 33–34.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lukin, M. D., & Imamoğlu, A. (2001). Controlling photons using electromagnetically induced transparency. Nature, 413(6853), 273–276.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falck, J., Coates, J., & Jackson, S. P. (2005). Conserved modes of recruitment of ATM, ATR and DNA-PKcs to sites of DNA damage. Nature, 434(7033), 605–611.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ruban, A. V., Wentworth, M., Yakushevska, A. E., Andersson, J., Lee, P. J., Keegstra, W., Dekker, J. P., Boekema, E. J., Jansson, S., & Horton, P. (2003). Plants lacking the main light-harvesting complex retain photosystem II macro-organization. Nature, 421(6923), 648–652.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gordon, J. (2009). Training Camp. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Borowiecki, K. J., Forbes, N., & Fresa, A. (Eds.). (2016). Cultural Heritage in a Changing World. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Chruszcz-Lipska, K., & Blanch, E. W. (2014). Raman Optical Activity of Biological Samples. In M. Baranska (Ed.), Optical Spectroscopy and Computational Methods in Biology and Medicine (pp. 61–81). 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 Aggression and Violent Behavior.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2015, September 17). What’s The Deadliest Plant On Earth? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/10-most-deadly-plants-earth/

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. (1992). Aviation Research: Information on Funding, Staffing, and Timing of FAA’s Research Projects (RCED-92-108FS). 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

Subbarao, S. (2015). An 8-PSK super regenerative receiver: Design and simulation [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010, November 28). Bond Between Generations, With Football On the Side. New York Times, SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Lukin & Imamoğlu, 2001; Smith, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Lukin & Imamoğlu, 2001)
Three authors: (Falck et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Ruban et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aggression and Violent Behavior
Abbreviation	Aggress. Violent Behav.
ISSN (print)	1359-1789
Scope	Pathology and Forensic Medicine Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology