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

Glikson, A. (2006). Comment on “Zircon thermometer reveals minimum melting conditions on earliest Earth” I. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5762), 779; author reply 779.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aguzzi, A., & Haass, C. (2003). Games played by rogue proteins in prion disorders and Alzheimer’s disease. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5646), 814–818.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wolf, S. M., Annas, G. J., & Elias, S. (2013). Point-counterpoint. Patient autonomy and incidental findings in clinical genomics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6136), 1049–1050.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Jetz, W., Carbone, C., Fulford, J., & Brown, J. H. (2004). The scaling of animal space use. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5694), 266–268.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bucci, D. (2017). Analog Electronics for Measuring Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sirgy, M. J., Phillips, R., & Rahtz, D. (Eds.). (2011). Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases V (Vol. 3). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Tournois, J., Alliez, P., & Devillers, O. (2008). Interleaving Delaunay Refinement and Optimization for 2D Triangle Mesh Generation. In M. L. Brewer & D. Marcum (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Meshing Roundtable (pp. 83–101). 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 Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, August 24). Celebrate the Spitzer Space Telescope’s 12th Anniversary With These Stunning Images. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/celebrate-spitzer-space-telescopes-12th-anniversary-these-stunning-images/

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. (1996). Airline Deregulation: Changes in Airfares, Service, and Safety at Small, Medium-Sized, and Large Communities (RCED-96-79). 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

Wistrom, C. A. (2017). Perceptions of School Leaders Regarding the Benefits of Leadership Dashboards [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Schwartz, J. (2017, September 10). Irma’s Shifting Forecasts: Probability and Uncertainty, With Room for Improvement. New York Times, A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Glikson, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Aguzzi & Haass, 2003; Glikson, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Aguzzi & Haass, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Jetz et al., 2004)

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