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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Journal of Behavioural 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

Angell, C. A. (2008). Insights into phases of liquid water from study of its unusual glass-forming properties. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5863), 582–587.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mattaj, I. W., & Tocchini-Valentini, G. P. (2007). Laying solid foundations for Europe. Nature, 447(7143), 377–378.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pettifer, R. F., Collins, S. P., & Laundy, D. (2008). Quadrupole transitions revealed by Borrmann spectroscopy. Nature, 454(7201), 196–199.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Steig, E. J., Schneider, D. P., Rutherford, S. D., Mann, M. E., Comiso, J. C., & Shindell, D. T. (2009). Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year. Nature, 457(7228), 459–462.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van Helvoort, H. (2005). Next Generation SDH/SONET. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Myers, W. L. (2006). Pattern-Based Compression of Multi-Band Image Data for Landscape Analysis (G. P. Patil, Ed.; Vol. 2). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Bougares, F., Rouvier, M., Camelin, N., Deléglise, P., & Estève, Y. (2013). An Investigation of Single-Pass ASR System Combination for Spoken Language Understanding. In A.-H. Dediu, C. Martín-Vide, R. Mitkov, & B. Truthe (Eds.), Statistical Language and Speech Processing: First International Conference, SLSP 2013, Tarragona, Spain, July 29-31, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 62–70). 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 Behavioural Science.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, July 8). In Spite Of The Headlines, You Don’t Need To Be Afraid Of Self-Driving Cars. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/second-tesla-crash-raises-unnecessary-questions-about-selfdriving-cars/

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. (2013). Status of the Department of Education’s Inventory of Its Data Collections (GAO-13-596R). 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

Petrovic, V. (2017). The K(n)-local E n-Adams Spectral Sequence and a Cohomological Approximation of its E2-term [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Kovaleski, S. F., & Moynihan, C. (2015, January 20). Well Before Scandals, Cosby’s Wife Faulted Media Treatment of Blacks. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Angell, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Angell, 2008; Mattaj & Tocchini-Valentini, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Mattaj & Tocchini-Valentini, 2007)
Three authors: (Pettifer et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Steig et al., 2009)

About the journal

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