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

Grangier, P. (2012). Physics. Room for just one photon. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6083), 812–813.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rauch, E. M., & Bar-Yam, Y. (2004). Theory predicts the uneven distribution of genetic diversity within species. Nature, 431(7007), 449–452.

A journal article with 3 authors

Runguphan, W., Qu, X., & O’Connor, S. E. (2010). Integrating carbon-halogen bond formation into medicinal plant metabolism. Nature, 468(7322), 461–464.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Feng, G.-R., Lu, Y., Hao, L., Zhang, F.-H., & Long, G.-L. (2013). Experimental simulation of quantum tunneling in small systems. Scientific Reports, 3, 2232.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gasser, W., Heiner, E., & Elk, K. (2005). Greensche Funktionen in Festkörper- und Vielteilchenphysik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Munné, A., Ginebreda, A., & Prat, N. (Eds.). (2016). Experiences from Surface Water Quality Monitoring: The EU Water Framework Directive Implementation in the Catalan River Basin District (Part I) (1st ed. 2016, Vol. 42). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Joardder, M. U. H., Karim, A., Kumar, C., & Brown, R. J. (2016). Effect of Porosity on Drying Kinetics and Food Properties. In A. Karim, C. Kumar, & R. J. Brown (Eds.), Porosity: Establishing the Relationship between Drying Parameters and Dried Food Quality (pp. 47–64). Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew, E. (2014, June 10). “Bonding Hormone” Oxytocin Makes Dogs More Social. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bonding-hormone-oxytocin-makes-dogs-more-social/

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. (2007). Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites: Restructuring Is Under Way, but Challenges and Risks Remain (GAO-07-910T). 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

Albrinck, B. M. (2010). An Exploratory Study of Urban Transportation and Air Quality Issues Using CO as an Indicator [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Brantley, B. (2016, October 24). Time Takes the Sharp Edges Off a Femme Fatale in a David Hare Revival. New York Times, C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grangier, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Grangier, 2012; Rauch & Bar-Yam, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Rauch & Bar-Yam, 2004)
Three authors: (Runguphan et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Feng et al., 2013)

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