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

Hakim, A. M. (2014). Perspective: silent, but preventable, perils. Nature, 510(7506), S12.

A journal article with 2 authors

Willis, K. J., & Bhagwat, S. A. (2009). Ecology. Biodiversity and climate change. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5954), 806–807.

A journal article with 3 authors

Papp, B., Pál, C., & Hurst, L. D. (2004). Metabolic network analysis of the causes and evolution of enzyme dispensability in yeast. Nature, 429(6992), 661–664.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Block, B. A., Teo, S. L. H., Walli, A., Boustany, A., Stokesbury, M. J. W., Farwell, C. J., et al. (2005). Electronic tagging and population structure of Atlantic bluefin tuna. Nature, 434(7037), 1121–1127.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Speight, J. G. (2017). Rules of Thumb for Petroleum Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Case, D. T. (2008). The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors: Bioarchaeological Documentation and Cultural Understanding. (C. Carr, Ed.) (1st ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Flom, R. (2013). Intersensory Perception of Faces and Voices in Infants. In P. Belin, S. Campanella, & T. Ethofer (Eds.), Integrating Face and Voice in Person Perception (pp. 71–93). New York, NY: 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

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, March 16). Life Might Jump Between Planets In The TRAPPIST-1 System. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/life-might-jump-between-planets-in-the-trappist-1-system/. 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. (2013). Aviation Security: TSA Should Limit Future Funding for Behavior Detection Activities (No. GAO-14-159). 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

Gomez-Zuebisch, L. C. (2010). A phenomenological exploration of the learning values derived from instructional short videos among adult learners (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, August 10). In Pursuit of a Social Media Mirage. New York Times, p. C10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hakim 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hakim 2014; Willis and Bhagwat 2009).

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

Two authors: (Willis and Bhagwat 2009)
Three or more authors: (Block et al. 2005)

About the journal

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