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

Gnecco, E. (2009). Nanotechnology: A gentle jackhammer. Nature, 461(7261), 178–179.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lyons, T. W., & Reinhard, C. T. (2009). Early Earth: Oxygen for heavy-metal fans. Nature, 461(7261), 179–181.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grosman, C., Zhou, M., & Auerbach, A. (2000). Mapping the conformational wave of acetylcholine receptor channel gating. Nature, 403(6771), 773–776.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ji, Q., Luo, Z.-X., Zhang, X., Yuan, C.-X., & Xu, L. (2009). Evolutionary development of the middle ear in Mesozoic therian mammals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5950), 278–281.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rossiter, A. (2008). Professional Excellence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Davim, J. P. (Ed.). (2015). Modern Manufacturing Engineering. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Garber, P. A., & Porter, L. M. (2010). The Ecology of Exudate Production and Exudate Feeding in Saguinus and Callimico. In A. M. Burrows & L. T. Nash (Eds.), The Evolution of Exudativory in Primates (pp. 89–108). 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 Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, September 9). Hawking Believes The Higgs Field Could Wipe Out The Universe—Should We Be Worried? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hawking-believes-higgs-field-could-wipe-out-universe-should-we-be-worried/

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. (2013). Small Business Innovation Research: Data Rights Protections (GAO-14-116R). 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

Adaligil, E. (2010). Electron transfer through self-assembled monolayers of alkaneselenols and alkanethiols on mercury electrode [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

Walsh, M. W. (2016, September 17). A Sour Surprise for Public Pensions. New York Times, BU1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gnecco, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Gnecco, 2009; Lyons & Reinhard, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Lyons & Reinhard, 2009)
Three authors: (Grosman et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Ji et al., 2009)

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

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