How to format your references using the Behavioral Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Behavioral Development. 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

Ambrose, S. H. (2006). Anthropology. A tool for all seasons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5801), 930–931.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kemp, C., & Regier, T. (2012). Kinship categories across languages reflect general communicative principles. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6084), 1049–1054.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vreeland, R. H., Rosenzweig, W. D., & Powers, D. W. (2000). Isolation of a 250 million-year-old halotolerant bacterium from a primary salt crystal. Nature, 407(6806), 897–900.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Levison, H. F., Bottke, W. F., Gounelle, M., Morbidelli, A., Nesvorný, D., & Tsiganis, K. (2009). Contamination of the asteroid belt by primordial trans-Neptunian objects. Nature, 460(7253), 364–366.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coussy, O. (2005). Poromechanics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Filipe, J., Cetto, J. A., & Ferrier, J.-L. (Eds.). (2009). Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics: Selected Papers from the International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics 2007 (Vol. 24). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hsu, Y.-C., & Chen, S. Y. (2011). Associating Learners’ Cognitive Style with Their Navigation Behaviors: A Data-Mining Approach. In J. A. Jacko (Ed.), Human-Computer Interaction. Users and Applications: 14th International Conference, HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part IV (pp. 27–34). 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 Behavioral Development.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 10). Black Holes Prevent Star Formation In Some Galaxies By Acting Like Thermostats. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/black-holes-can-be-thermostats-galaxies/

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. (1998). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of State Automated Systems to Support Federal Welfare Programs (AIMD-99-28). 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

Sherman, L. J. (2009). Bridging the attachment transmission gap with maternal mind-mindedness and infant temperament [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

Stewart, J. B. (2016, September 2). Tax Cuts for Americans Like Trump. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ambrose, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Ambrose, 2006; Kemp & Regier, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Kemp & Regier, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Levison et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Behavioral Development
ISSN (online)	1942-0722
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