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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Armbrust, E. V. (2014). Microbiology. Taking the pulse of ocean microbes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6193), 134–135.

A journal article with 2 authors

Najemnik, J., & Geisler, W. S. (2005). Optimal eye movement strategies in visual search. Nature, 434(7031), 387–391.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu, M.-H., Wan, L.-Z., & Zhang, Y.-Q. (2014). A novel sodium N-fatty acyl amino acid surfactant using silkworm pupae as stock material. Scientific Reports, 4, 4428.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Wang, Z., Tao, P., Liu, Y., Xu, H., Ye, Q., Hu, H., Song, C., Chen, Z., Shang, W., & Deng, T. (2014). Rapid charging of thermal energy storage materials through plasmonic heating. Scientific Reports, 4, 6246.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tewari, A. (2011). Advanced Control of Aircraft, Spacecraft and Rockets. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Zeng, Z., & Wang, J. (Eds.). (2010). Advances in Neural Network Research and Applications (Vol. 67). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Di Piazza, M. C., & Vitale, G. (2013). Photovoltaic Source Dynamic Modeling Issues. In G. Vitale (Ed.), Photovoltaic Sources: Modeling and Emulation (pp. 131–169). 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

Luntz, S. (2014, October 16). Skipping Rocks On Frozen Lake Makes The “Coolest Sound Ever.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (2001). Social Security: Observations on Improving Distribution of Death Information (GAO-02-233T). 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

Kane, B. H. (2017). A Qualitative Exploratory Inquiry of Communicating in a Multigenerational Traditional-Rational Organization [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Kershner, I., & Hubbard, B. (2016, December 21). Hezbollah Is Using U.S.-Made Armor in Syria, Israel Says. New York Times, A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Armbrust, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Armbrust, 2014; Najemnik & Geisler, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Najemnik & Geisler, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Wang 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