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

Pines D: Science-based security under threat. Nature. 2000; 407:447–448.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dey S, Joshi A: Effects of constant immigration on the dynamics and persistence of stable and unstable Drosophila populations. Sci Rep. 2013; 3:1405.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gaudelli NM, Long DH, Townsend CA: β-Lactam formation by a non-ribosomal peptide synthetase during antibiotic biosynthesis. Nature. 2015; 520:383–387.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Antia R, Regoes RR, Koella JC, Bergstrom CT: The role of evolution in the emergence of infectious diseases. Nature. 2003; 426:658–661.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pietersen W: Strategic Learning. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Solomon BD, Bailis R (eds): Sustainable Development of Biofuels in Latin America and the Caribbean. New York, NY: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Li M, He G: Fast Mode Decision Algorithm in H.263+/H.264 Intra Transcoder. In: Zhuang Y, Yang S-Q, Rui Y, He Q, editors. Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2006: 7th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Hangzhou, China, November 2-4, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006. p. 41–47.

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

Carpineti A: Comets Spurt Out Chemicals In Specific Ways. IFLScience. 2016; .

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: Award of an Army Advanced Development Contract in 1971 to the Boeing Company Calling for the Design Fabrication and Testing of Certain Critical Advanced Technology Components. 1972; .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Malet DS: Foreign fighters: Transnational identity in civil conflicts. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University. 2009.

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

Baker P: Investigation Takes On Gravity In Dangerous Phase for Trump. New York Times. 2017; A1.

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