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

Showman, A. P. (2014). Astrophysics: Portrait of a dynamic neighbour. Nature, 505(7485), 625–626.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheney, R. E., & Rodriguez, O. C. (2001). Cell biology. A switch to release the motor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5533), 1263–1264.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richards-Dinger, K., Stein, R. S., & Toda, S. (2010). Decay of aftershock density with distance does not indicate triggering by dynamic stress. Nature, 467(7315), 583–586.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhou, J., Li, N., Gao, F., Zhao, Y., Hou, L., & Xu, Z. (2014). Vertically-aligned BCN nanotube arrays with superior performance in electrochemical capacitors. Scientific reports, 4, 6083.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lafontaine, E., & Comet, M. (2016). Nanothermites. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Miransari, M. (Ed.). (2014). Use of Microbes for the Alleviation of Soil Stresses: Volume 2: Alleviation of Soil Stress by PGPR and Mycorrhizal Fungi. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gigengack, F., Jiang, X., Dawood, M., & Schäfers, K. P. (2015). Further Developments in PET Motion Correction. In X. Jiang, M. Dawood, & K. P. Schäfers (Eds.), Motion Correction in Thoracic Positron Emission Tomography (pp. 75–80). 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

Andrew, E. (2014, August 28). Panda Fakes Pregnancy To Get More Food. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/panda-fakes-pregnancy-get-more-food/. 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). Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak Faces Challenges in Improving Its Financial Condition (No. T-RCED-00-30). 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

Aiken, J. (2009). Virtually a leader: Mitigating process losses through shared team states (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Brantley, B. (2017, February 17). Fears Both Small (Cats) and Large (Apocalypse). New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Showman 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Cheney and Rodriguez 2001; Showman 2014).

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

Two authors: (Cheney and Rodriguez 2001)
Three or more authors: (Zhou 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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