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

Friedlingstein, P. (2008). A steep road to climate stabilization. Nature, 451(7176), 297–298.

A journal article with 2 authors

Di Franco, C., & Paternostro, M. (2013). A no-go result on the purification of quantum states. Scientific reports, 3, 1387.

A journal article with 3 authors

O’Riordan, M., Moors, M. A., & Portnoy, D. A. (2003). Listeria intracellular growth and virulence require host-derived lipoic acid. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5644), 462–464.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Leitch, E. M., Kovac, J. M., Pryke, C., Carlstrom, J. E., Halverson, N. W., Holzapfel, W. L., et al. (2002). Measurement of polarization with the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer. Nature, 420(6917), 763–771.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simon, J. (2017). Banach, Fréchet, Hilbert and Neumann Spaces. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ambroszkiewicz, S., Brzeziński, J., Cellary, W., Grzech, A., & Zieliński, K. (Eds.). (2014). Advanced SOA Tools and Applications (Vol. 499). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bianchi, M., Draoli, M., & Gambosi, G. (2011). An Innovative Approach to the Development of E-Government Search Services. In K. N. Andersen, E. Francesconi, Å. Grönlund, & T. M. van Engers (Eds.), Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective: Second International Conference, EGOVIS 2011, Toulouse, France, August 29 – September 2, 2011. Proceedings (pp. 41–55). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Andrews, R. (2016, July 18). Carbon Nanotubes Can Act As “Bridges” Between Living Neurons. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/carbon-nanotubes-can-act-as-bridges-between-living-neurons/. 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. (1999). Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Federal Business Continuity and Contingency Plans and Day One Strategies (No. T-AIMD-00-40). 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

Holmberg, M. B. (2014). Alternative nitrogen for subsequent southern switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) production using cool-season legumes (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Feeney, K. (2009, March 8). Alsatian Sauerkraut, Anyone? New York Times, p. NJ9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Friedlingstein 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Di Franco and Paternostro 2013; Friedlingstein 2008).

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

Two authors: (Di Franco and Paternostro 2013)
Three or more authors: (Leitch et al. 2002)

About the journal

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