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

Dennis, C. (2002). Small RNAs: the genome’s guiding hand? Nature, 420(6917), 732.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tagle, R., & Claeys, P. (2004). Comet or asteroid shower in the late Eocene? Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5683), 492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jaeger, T. F., Pontillo, D., & Graff, P. (2012). Comment on “Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6072), 1042; author reply 1042.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhang, S., Kanemitsu, Y., Fujitani, M., & Yamashita, T. (2014). The newly identified migration inhibitory protein regulates the radial migration in the developing neocortex. Scientific Reports, 4, 5984.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schmidt, W. (2000). Optische Spektroskopie. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Alpas, H., Berkowicz, S. M., & Ermakova, I. (Eds.). (2011). Environmental Security and Ecoterrorism. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Hunt, J. E., Wynn, R. B., & Croudace, I. W. (2015). Identification, Correlation and Origin of Multistage Landslide Events in Volcaniclastic Turbidites in the Moroccan Turbidite System. In I. W. Croudace & R. G. Rothwell (Eds.), Micro-XRF Studies of Sediment Cores: Applications of a non-destructive tool for the environmental sciences (pp. 147–172). Springer Netherlands.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, August 28). The Up Side Of Feeling Down: New Theory Links Neurotic Thinking To Creativity. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/side-feeling-down-new-theory-links-neurotic-thinking-creativity/

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. (1975). Need for a National Ocean Program and Plan (GGD-75-97). 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

Jernigan, M. B. (2013). Use of uprooted invasive buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare ) parent plants as thatch to reduce progeny seedling emergence [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Sisario, B. (2017, February 9). Prince Estate in Deal With Universal. New York Times, C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dennis, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Dennis, 2002; Tagle & Claeys, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Tagle & Claeys, 2004)
Three authors: (Jaeger et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2014)

About the journal

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