How to format your references using the Behaviour Research and Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Behaviour Research and 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

Macilwain, C. (2015). And the winner is: not science. Nature, 518(7538), 139.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stevens, M. M., & George, J. H. (2005). Exploring and engineering the cell surface interface. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5751), 1135–1138.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lai, Y.-T., Cascio, D., & Yeates, T. O. (2012). Structure of a 16-nm cage designed by using protein oligomers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6085), 1129.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Dong, C., Beis, K., Nesper, J., Brunkan-Lamontagne, A. L., Clarke, B. R., Whitfield, C., & Naismith, J. H. (2006). Wza the translocon for E. coli capsular polysaccharides defines a new class of membrane protein. Nature, 444(7116), 226–229.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hallberg, M. C. (2008). Economic Trends in U.S. Agriculture and Food Systems Since World War II. Iowa State University Press.

An edited book

Hanslmeier, A., Kempe, S., & Seckbach, J. (Eds.). (2012). Life on Earth and other Planetary Bodies (Vol. 24). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Elberink, S. O. (2008). Re-using laser scanner data in applications for 3D topography. In P. van Oosterom, S. Zlatanova, F. Penninga, & E. M. Fendel (Eds.), Advances in 3D Geoinformation Systems (pp. 87–99). 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 Behaviour Research and Therapy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 19). Autistic People Are More Creative Than You Might Think. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/autistic-people-are-more-creative-you-might-think/

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. (1984). GAO’s Review of Federal Efforts To Reduce Asbestos Hazards in Schools (125220). 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

Mirzalou, R. (2017). Design and simulation of an 8-PSK super regenerative receiver with new phase detection technique [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

Williams, T. C. (2017, March 28). Radical Ambition. New York Times, MM24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain, 2015; Stevens & George, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Stevens & George, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Dong et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Behaviour Research and Therapy
Abbreviation	Behav. Res. Ther.
ISSN (print)	0005-7967
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology