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

Pusey, J. (2009). Global Darwin: Revolutionary road. Nature, 462(7270), 162–163.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mullen, G. M., & Mullins, C. B. (2014). Chemistry. Water’s place in Au catalysis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6204), 1564–1565.

A journal article with 3 authors

Strick, T. R., Croquette, V., & Bensimon, D. (2000). Single-molecule analysis of DNA uncoiling by a type II topoisomerase. Nature, 404(6780), 901–904.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Karlsson, A., Karlsson, R., Karlsson, M., Cans, A. S., Strömberg, A., Ryttsén, F., & Orwar, O. (2001). Networks of nanotubes and containers. Nature, 409(6817), 150–152.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stoop, I., Billiet, J., Koch, A., & Fitzgerald, R. (2010). Improving Survey Response. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Squassina, M. (2016). Introduzione all’Analisi Qualitativa dei Sistemi Dinamici Discreti e Continui. (S. Zuccher, Ed.) (Vol. 96). Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

De Toni, A., & Nassimbeni, G. (2016). A Model of Codesign Relationships: Definitions and Contingencies. A Review and Outlook. In E. Bartezzaghi, R. Cagliano, F. Caniato, & S. Ronchi (Eds.), A Journey through Manufacturing and Supply Chain Strategy Research: A Tribute to Professor Gianluca Spina (pp. 113–137). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, May 4). NASA Pretended Neptune Was An Exoplanet To Improve Our Chances Of Finding Life. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-pretended-neptune-was-an-exoplanet-to-improve-our-chances-of-finding-life/. 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. (2015). Aviation Security: Improved Testing, Evaluation, and Performance Measurement Could Enhance Effectiveness (No. GAO-16-199T). 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

Warfield, B. S. (2017). Speaking of the Self: Theorizing the Dialogical Dimensions of Ethical Agency (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2011, May 12). A.I.G. Tells Shareholders Stock Sale Still Planned. New York Times, p. B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pusey 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Mullen and Mullins 2014; Pusey 2009).

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

Two authors: (Mullen and Mullins 2014)
Three or more authors: (Karlsson et al. 2001)

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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