How to format your references using the Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education citation style

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

Clawson, G. A. (2013). Cancer. Fusion for moving. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6159), 699–700.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dey, S., & Joshi, A. (2006). Stability via asynchrony in Drosophila metapopulations with low migration rates. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5772), 434–436.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rutberg, R. L., Hemming, S. R., & Goldstein, S. L. (2000). Reduced North Atlantic Deep Water flux to the glacial Southern Ocean inferred from neodymium isotope ratios. Nature, 405(6789), 935–938.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lavallée, Y., Meredith, P. G., Dingwell, D. B., Hess, K.-U., Wassermann, J., Cordonnier, B., et al. (2008). Seismogenic lavas and explosive eruption forecasting. Nature, 453(7194), 507–510.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mynbaev, K. T. (2011). Short-Memory Linear Processes and Econometric Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Meyer, G., & Valldorf, J. (Eds.). (2010). Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2010: Smart Systems for Green Cars and Safe Mobility. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Stobbelaar, D. J., & Hendriks, K. (2007). Seasonality of Agricultural Landscapes: Reading Time and Place by Colours and Shapes. In H. Palang, H. Sooväli, & A. Printsmann (Eds.), Seasonal Landscapes (pp. 103–126). Dordrecht: 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 Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, September 26). NASA’s Budget For 2017 Has Passed A Huge Hurdle. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasas-budget-for-2017-has-passed-a-huge-hurdle/. 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. (1973). Difficulties of the Neighborhood Youth Corps In-School Program and Its Management Problems (No. B-130515). 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

Sewell, A. (2013). A typology of sampling in hip-hop (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Park, L. S. (2013, May 12). Endangered Daughters. New York Times, p. BR21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clawson 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Clawson 2013; Dey and Joshi 2006).

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

Two authors: (Dey and Joshi 2006)
Three or more authors: (Lavallée et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education
ISSN (online)	2365-502X
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