How to format your references using the Annals of Behavioral Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 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

Lewis R: Chemistry in context. Nature. 2007; 446:464–465.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hayashi T, Carthew RW: Surface mechanics mediate pattern formation in the developing retina. Nature. 2004; 431:647–652.

A journal article with 3 authors

Walkden G, Parker J, Kelley S: A late Triassic impact ejecta layer in southwestern Britain. Science. 2002; 298:2185–2188.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang L-L, Duan S, Yang X-L, et al.: Systematic investigation on Cadmium-incorporation in Li₂FeSiO₄/C cathode material for lithium-ion batteries. Sci Rep. 2014; 4:5064.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simon P, Brousse T, Favier F: Supercapacitors Based on Carbon or Pseudocapacitive Materials. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017.

An edited book

Elvin N, Erturk A (eds): Advances in Energy Harvesting Methods. New York, NY: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Bolatkale M, Breems LJ, Makinwa KAA: A 4 GHz Continuous-Time ΔΣ ADC. In: Breems LJ, Makinwa KAA, editors. High Speed and Wide Bandwidth Delta-Sigma ADCs. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. p. 73–93.

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 Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

Blog post

Fang J: Large Study Concludes Homeopathy Does Not Effectively Treat Any Health Condition. IFLScience. 2015; .

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: Airport Financing: Smaller Airports Face Future Funding Shortfalls. 1999; .

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Yarijanian AA: Cardborigami’s Strategic Business Plan to Address Urban Homelessness. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach. 2017.

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

Greenhouse L: Justices to Enter the Debate Over Lethal Injection. New York Times. 2007; A24.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Behavioral Medicine
Abbreviation	Ann. Behav. Med.
ISSN (print)	0883-6612
ISSN (online)	1532-4796
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health General Psychology