How to format your references using the Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Carlson, D. (2011). A lesson in sharing. Nature, 469(7330), 293.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forster, P., & Renfrew, C. (2011). Evolution. Mother tongue and Y chromosomes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6048), 1390–1391.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baumgart, T., Hess, S. T., & Webb, W. W. (2003). Imaging coexisting fluid domains in biomembrane models coupling curvature and line tension. Nature, 425(6960), 821–824.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lo, S.-T., Chen, K. Y., Lin, S.-D., Wu, J.-Y., Lin, T. L., Yeh, M. R., Chen, T.-M., & Liang, C.-T. (2013). Controllable disorder in a hybrid nanoelectronic system: realization of a superconducting diode. Scientific Reports, 3, 2274.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva, L. S., Simões, R., & Gervásio, H. (2012). Design of Steel Structures. Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Manin, Y. I. (2005). Introduction to Modern Number Theory: Fundamental Problems, Ideas and Theories (A. A. Panchishkin, Ed.; 2nd ed., Vol. 49). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ali, M. A. M., & Maarof, M. A. (2013). A Novel Malware Detection Framework Based on Innate Immunity and Danger Theory. In K. J. Kim & K.-Y. Chung (Eds.), IT Convergence and Security 2012 (pp. 29–34). 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 Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016, December 22). Could This Be The Solution To The Mystery Of The “Alien Megastructure” Star? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/could-this-be-the-solution-to-the-mystery-of-the-alien-megastructure-star/

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. (1991). B-2 Bomber: Early Radar Signature Tests (NSIAD-91-188). 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

Nguyen, A. (2017). Poetry as a Museum [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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, August 24). Beach Rats. New York Times, C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carlson, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Carlson, 2011; Forster & Renfrew, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Forster & Renfrew, 2011)
Three authors: (Baumgart et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Lo et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science
Abbreviation	Can. J. Behav. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0008-400X
ISSN (online)	1879-2669
Scope	General Psychology