How to format your references using the Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice citation style

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

Telenti, A. (2014). HIV: The mixed blessing of interferon. Nature, 511(7511), 537–538.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nisbet, M. C., & Mooney, C. (2007). Science and society. Framing Science. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5821), 56.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lobell, D. B., Schlenker, W., & Costa-Roberts, J. (2011). Climate trends and global crop production since 1980. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6042), 616–620.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Long, J. A., Young, G. C., Holland, T., Senden, T. J., & Fitzgerald, E. M. G. (2006). An exceptional Devonian fish from Australia sheds light on tetrapod origins. Nature, 444(7116), 199–202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reiher, M., & Wolf, A. (2014). Relativistic Quantum Chemistry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Vasishth, S. (2011). The Foundations of Statistics: A Simulation-based Approach (M. Broe, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hungr, O. (2007). Dynamics of Rapid Landslides. In K. Sassa, H. Fukuoka, F. Wang, & G. Wang (Eds.), Progress in Landslide Science (pp. 47–57). 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: Research and Practice.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, June 23). Measles Outbreak Traced Back To A Single Unvaccinated Child. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/measles-outbreak-traced-back-single-unvaccinated-child/

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. (2000). Bank Regulators’ Evaluation of Electronic Signature Systems (GAO-01-129R). 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

Tang, Y. (2009). Structure tailored properties and functionalities of zero-dimensional nanostructures [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Poniewozik, J. (2017, June 9). Will He Let Loose the Hounds? New York Times, C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Telenti, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Nisbet & Mooney, 2007; Telenti, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Nisbet & Mooney, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Long et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice
ISSN (online)	2372-9414
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