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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Koen, D. (2004). Nuts and bolts. Seeking feedback. Nature, 430(6999), 592.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sack, F. D., & Chen, J.-G. (2009). Plant science. Pores in place. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5914), 592–593.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burslem, D. F., Garwood, N. C., & Thomas, S. C. (2001). Ecology. Tropical forest diversity--the plot thickens. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5504), 606–607.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Xiong, Z. H., Wu, D., Vardeny, Z. V., & Shi, J. (2004). Giant magnetoresistance in organic spin-valves. Nature, 427(6977), 821–824.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McMaster, M. C. (2005). LC/MS. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cartwright, C. C., & Wallace, D. C. (Eds.). (2013). Nursing Care of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Patient (2nd ed. 2013.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Duncan, G. T., Elliot, M., & Salazar-González, J.-J. (2011). Providing and Protecting Microdata. In M. Elliot & J.-J. Salazar-González (Eds.), Statistical Confidentiality: Principles and Practice (pp. 93–122). 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 Behavior Analysis in Practice.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, May 27). These Are Each State’s Most Commonly Misspelled Word On Google. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1978). Procedures To Safeguard Social Security Beneficiary Records Can and Should Be Improved (No. HRD-78-116). 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

Kulavuz-Onal, D. (2013). English Language Teachers’ Learning to Teach with Technology through Participation in an Online Community of Practice: A Netnography of Webheads in Action (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

Kelly, M. (1992, December 17). Ideology Seems to Doom Cabinet Contender. New York Times, p. B20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koen 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Koen 2004; Sack and Chen 2009).

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

Two authors: (Sack and Chen 2009)
Three or more authors: (Xiong et al. 2004)

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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