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

Sharpe, J. (2014). Developmental biology: Cells unite by trapping a signal. Nature, 515(7525), 41–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bruno, R. M., & Sakmann, B. (2006). Cortex is driven by weak but synchronously active thalamocortical synapses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5780), 1622–1627.

A journal article with 3 authors

Boyd, R., Gintis, H., & Bowles, S. (2010). Coordinated punishment of defectors sustains cooperation and can proliferate when rare. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5978), 617–620.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Huiskes, R., Ruimerman, R., van Lenthe, G. H., & Janssen, J. D. (2000). Effects of mechanical forces on maintenance and adaptation of form in trabecular bone. Nature, 405(6787), 704–706.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guillaume, P. (2006). Music and Acoustics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Singh, O. V., & Harvey, S. P. (Eds.). (2010). Sustainable Biotechnology: Sources of Renewable Energy. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Horvath, J., & Cameron, R. (2015). What’s a Makerspace (or Hackerspace)? In R. Cameron (Ed.), The New Shop Class: Getting Started with 3D Printing, Arduino, and Wearable Tech (pp. 59–71). Apress.

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

Andrews, R. (2017, March 7). Certain Men Really Oversell Their Penis Size, According To Bizarre Survey. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/men-oversell-penis-size-bizarre-survey/

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. (1975). Increased Compliance Needed With Nursing Home Health and Sanitary Standards (MWD-76-8). 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

Karasik, B. A. (2015). Tele-collaboration in theatre: Collaboration mgmt tools in a digital and globalized age [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Ryerson, J. (2017, January 11). University Presses. New York Times, BR27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sharpe, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bruno & Sakmann, 2006; Sharpe, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Bruno & Sakmann, 2006)
Three authors: (Boyd et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Huiskes et al., 2000)

About the journal

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

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