How to format your references using the Body Image citation style

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

Goroff, N. S. (2014). Chemistry.A clear path for polymer crystallization. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6168), 258–259.

A journal article with 2 authors

Uversky, V. N., & Dunker, A. K. (2008). Biochemistry. Controlled chaos. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5906), 1340–1341.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carrez, P., Ferré, D., & Cordier, P. (2007). Implications for plastic flow in the deep mantle from modelling dislocations in MgSiO3 minerals. Nature, 446(7131), 68–70.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Onuchic, V., Lurie, E., Carrero, I., Pawliczek, P., Patel, R. Y., Rozowsky, J., Galeev, T., Huang, Z., Altshuler, R. C., Zhang, Z., Harris, R. A., Coarfa, C., Ashmore, L., Bertol, J. W., Fakhouri, W. D., Yu, F., Kellis, M., Gerstein, M., & Milosavljevic, A. (2018). Allele-specific epigenome maps reveal sequence-dependent stochastic switching at regulatory loci. Science (New York, N.Y.), 361(6409).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eligehausen, R., Mallée, R., & Silva, J. F. (2012). Anchorage in Concrete Construction. Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Sadeghi, A.-R. (Ed.). (2013). Financial Cryptography and Data Security: 17th International Conference, FC 2013, Okinawa, Japan, April 1-5, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 7859). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Shi, Z. (2008). Application of First Principles Methods in the Study of Fuel Cell Air-Cathode Electrocatalysis. In J. Zhang (Ed.), PEM Fuel Cell Electrocatalysts and Catalyst Layers: Fundamentals and Applications (pp. 289–329). 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 Body Image.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, April 29). Scientists Have Figured Out What Caused The “Alien Radio Signal” Coming From A Distant Exoplanet. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/alien-radio-signal-distant-exoplanet-caused-planet-wide-lightning-storm/

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. (1997). Strategic Mobility: Late Deliveries of Large, Medium Speed Roll-On/Roll-Off Ships (NSIAD-97-150). 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

Shimpeno, P. D. (2010). Consumed: Simple Choices, Complex Problems [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida Atlantic University.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2008, February 28). Supreme Court Alters Tone In a Discrimination Case. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goroff, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Goroff, 2014; Uversky & Dunker, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Uversky & Dunker, 2008)
Three authors: (Carrez et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Onuchic et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Body Image
Abbreviation	Body Image
ISSN (print)	1740-1445
Scope	General Psychology Applied Psychology Social Psychology