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

Champion, P. M. (2005). Chemistry. Following the flow of energy in biomolecules. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5750), 980–982.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cane, M. A., & Molnar, P. (2001). Closing of the Indonesian seaway as a precursor to east African aridification around 3-4 million years ago. Nature, 411(6834), 157–162.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pavlidis, I., Eberhardt, N. L., & Levine, J. A. (2002). Seeing through the face of deception. Nature, 415(6867), 35.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Miller, S. E., Collins, B. M., McCoy, A. J., Robinson, M. S., & Owen, D. J. (2007). A SNARE-adaptor interaction is a new mode of cargo recognition in clathrin-coated vesicles. Nature, 450(7169), 570–574.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stokes, D. J. (2008). Principles and Practice of Variable Pressure/Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (VP-ESEM). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Minati, G. (2007). Collective Beings (E. Pessa, Ed.). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Ellingsæter, A. L. (2012). Nordic Politicization of Parenthood: Unfolding Hybridization? In M. Richter & S. Andresen (Eds.), The Politicization of Parenthood: Shifting private and public responsibilities in education and child rearing (pp. 39–53). 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

Andrews, R. (2017, June 13). The Sex Lives Of Ghost Sharks Are Weirder Than You Think. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sex-lives-ghost-sharks-weirder-think/

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. (1988). Space Operations: Testing of NASA’s Technical and Management Information System (IMTEC-88-28). 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

Ortiz Martinez, B. (2009). Diabetes among older Latino adults [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

Ember, S., & Harris, G. (2017, June 23). Wall St. Journal Reviews Articles by Fired Reporter. New York Times, B5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Champion, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Cane & Molnar, 2001; Champion, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Cane & Molnar, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Miller et al., 2007)

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