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

Jarvis, M. J. (2001). Atmospheric science. Bridging the atmospheric divide. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5538), 2218–2219.

A journal article with 2 authors

Segura-Totten, M., & Wilson, K. L. (2001). Virology. HIV--breaking the rules for nuclear entry. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5544), 1016–1017.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, J., Park, J., & Choi, C. (2014). Identification of phenotype deterministic genes using systemic analysis of transcriptional response. Scientific Reports, 4, 4413.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bakal, C., Linding, R., Llense, F., Heffern, E., Martin-Blanco, E., Pawson, T., & Perrimon, N. (2008). Phosphorylation networks regulating JNK activity in diverse genetic backgrounds. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5900), 453–456.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bartoszyǹski, R., & Niewiadomska-Bugaj, M. (2007). Probability and Statistical Inference, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Isaías, P., Spector, J. M., Ifenthaler, D., & Sampson, D. G. (Eds.). (2015). E-Learning Systems, Environments and Approaches: Theory and Implementation. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Gairing, M., Lücking, T., Monien, B., & Tiemann, K. (2005). Nash Equilibria, the Price of Anarchy and the Fully Mixed Nash Equilibrium Conjecture. In L. Caires, G. F. Italiano, L. Monteiro, C. Palamidessi, & M. Yung (Eds.), Automata, Languages and Programming: 32nd International Colloquium, ICALP 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, July 11-15, 2005. Proceedings (pp. 51–65). 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, D. (2016, October 2). How Feasible Are Elon Musk’s Plans To Settle On Mars? A Planetary Scientist Explains. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-feasible-are-elon-musks-plans-to-settle-on-mars-a-planetary-scientist-explains/

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. (2004). Financial Management Systems: HHS Faces Many Challenges in Implementing Its Unified Financial Management System (GAO-04-1089T). 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

Prima, M. B. (2012). Waiting for Lefty: Adversity and the American Dream [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

Grynbaum, M. M. (2017, July 12). ‘Transparency’ Of Tweets Risks Eroding Media’s Trust. New York Times, A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jarvis, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Jarvis, 2001; Segura-Totten & Wilson, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Segura-Totten & Wilson, 2001)
Three authors: (Lee et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Bakal et al., 2008)

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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