How to format your references using the Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression. 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

Scharfman, H. E. (2015). Neuroscience. Metabolic control of epilepsy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6228), 1312–1313.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dangl, J. L., & Jones, J. D. (2001). Plant pathogens and integrated defence responses to infection. Nature, 411(6839), 826–833.

A journal article with 3 authors

Depue, B. E., Curran, T., & Banich, M. T. (2007). Prefrontal regions orchestrate suppression of emotional memories via a two-phase process. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5835), 215–219.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kanwar, N., Scott, H. M., Norby, B., Loneragan, G. H., Vinasco, J., Cottell, J. L., Chalmers, G., Chengappa, M. M., Bai, J., & Boerlin, P. (2014). Impact of treatment strategies on cephalosporin and tetracycline resistance gene quantities in the bovine fecal metagenome. Scientific Reports, 4, 5100.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beach, D. (1996). The Responsible Conduct of Research. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Hudak, P., & Warren, D. S. (Eds.). (2008). Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages: 10th International Symposium, PADL 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA, January 7-8, 2008. Proceedings (Vol. 4902). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Marcus, D. A., & Bain, P. A. (2009). Acute Treatment Options for the Pregnant Headache Patient. In D. Marcus (Ed.), Effective Migraine Treatment in Pregnant and Lactating Women: A Practical Guide (pp. 71–100). Humana Press.

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 Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, February 6). More Hints From CERN On Why The Universe Is Made Of Matter. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1992). Visibility and Leadership: The Changing Federal Role in Education (147976). 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

Goldner, V. R. (2010). Arizona nurses’ attitudes toward legislated minimum staffing ratios: Impact on the workplace [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Apuzzo, M., & Schmidt, M. S. (2017, October 7). White House Tries Civility With Mueller. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scharfman, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Dangl & Jones, 2001; Scharfman, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Dangl & Jones, 2001)
Three authors: (Depue et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Kanwar et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression
ISSN (print)	1943-4472
ISSN (online)	1943-4480
Scope	Social Psychology Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations