How to format your references using the Behavior Analysis in Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Behavior Analysis in Practice. 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

Blakely, R. D. (2001). Neurobiology. Dopamine’s reversal of fortune. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5539), 2407–2409.

A journal article with 2 authors

van den Elsen, J. M. H., & Isenman, D. E. (2011). A crystal structure of the complex between human complement receptor 2 and its ligand C3d. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6029), 608–611.

A journal article with 3 authors

Antón, S. C., Potts, R., & Aiello, L. C. (2014). Human evolution. Evolution of early Homo: an integrated biological perspective. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6192), 1236828.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Miyazaki, M., Takahashi, H., Rolf, M., Okada, H., & Omori, T. (2014). The image-scratch paradigm: a new paradigm for evaluating infants’ motivated gaze control. Scientific reports, 4, 5498.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schaik, C. P. V. (2015). The Primate Origins of Human Nature. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nicolescu, G., O’Connor, I., & Piguet, C. (Eds.). (2012). Design Technology for Heterogeneous Embedded Systems. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Langrial, S., Oinas-Kukkonen, H., & Wang, S. (2012). Design of a Web-Based Information System for Sleep Deprivation – A Trial Study. In K. Eriksson-Backa, A. Luoma, & E. Krook (Eds.), Exploring the Abyss of Inequalities: 4th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2012, Turku, Finland, August 22-24, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 41–51). 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 Behavior Analysis in Practice.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, December 9). Timelapse Of Tarantula Molting Looks Like Alien Birth. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tarantula-molting-looks-alien-birth/. 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. (1991). ADP Procurement: DOD’s Approach to Providing Logistics Data on Compact Disk Is Justified (No. IMTEC-91-74). 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

Goldstein, J. (2012). Murder in Colonial Albany: European and Indian Responses to Cross-Cultural Murders (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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. (2007, March 18). Filipino Fast Food to Linger Over. New York Times, p. NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blakely 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Blakely 2001; van den Elsen and Isenman 2011).

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

Two authors: (van den Elsen and Isenman 2011)
Three or more authors: (Miyazaki et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Behavior Analysis in Practice
Abbreviation	Behav. Anal. Pract.
ISSN (print)	1998-1929
ISSN (online)	2196-8934
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