How to format your references using the Behavior Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Behavior Therapy. 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	Download the output style file
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

Mervis, J. (2000). CALL TO ARMS: Diversity: Easier Said Than Done. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5478), 378–379.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davis, C. S., & McGillicuddy, D. J., Jr. (2006). Transatlantic abundance of the N2-fixing colonial cyanobacterium Trichodesmium. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5779), 1517–1520.

A journal article with 3 authors

Conway, S. L., Shinbrot, T., & Glasser, B. J. (2004). A Taylor vortex analogy in granular flows. Nature, 431(7007), 433–437.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Croll, D. A., Clark, C. W., Acevedo, A., Tershy, B., Flores, S., Gedamke, J., & Urban, J. (2002). Only male fin whales sing loud songs. Nature, 417(6891), 809.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wagner, D., & Balog, E. (2012). Advanced Technical Analysis of ETFs. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ciarletta, P. (2016). Mathematical Models and Methods for Living Systems: Levico Terme, Italy 2014 (T. Hillen, H. Othmer, L. Preziosi, D. Trucu, M. Chaplain, & A. Pugliese, Eds.; Vol. 2167). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hale, M. R. (2016). Apostles of Freedom: Pro-French American Democrats and Thomas Paine as Religious Crusaders. In S. Cleary & I. L. Stabell (Eds.), New Directions in Thomas Paine Studies (pp. 69–91). Palgrave Macmillan US.

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 Therapy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 28). How The Diets Of Early Humans Explain Our Eating Habits. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-diets-early-humans-explain-our-eating-habits/

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. (1970). Selected Contracting and Consulting Activities of the Office of Education (B-164031(1)). 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

Richards, O. (2017). Teachers’ Perceptions About the Value of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: A Case Study [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral University.

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

Wong, E. (2017, June 2). Can China Lead Way on Climate Change? Domestic Divide Could Make It Difficult. New York Times, A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mervis, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Davis & McGillicuddy, 2006; Mervis, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Davis & McGillicuddy, 2006)
Three authors: (Conway et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Croll et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Behavior Therapy
Abbreviation	Behav. Ther.
ISSN (print)	0005-7894
Scope	Clinical Psychology