How to format your references using the Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement. 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

Benedetti-Cecchi, L. (2000). Variance in ecological consumer-resource interactions. Nature, 407(6802), 370–374.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaminski, T., & Heimann, M. (2001). Inverse modeling of atmospheric carbon dioxide fluxes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5541), 259.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yang, Z., Watanabe, S., & Kato, T. (2013). The irradiation effect of a simultaneous laser and electron dual-beam on void formation. Scientific Reports, 3, 1201.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Eden, S., Rohatgi, R., Podtelejnikov, A. V., Mann, M., & Kirschner, M. W. (2002). Mechanism of regulation of WAVE1-induced actin nucleation by Rac1 and Nck. Nature, 418(6899), 790–793.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leach, M., Drummond, M., & Doig, A. (2013). Practical Flow Cytometry in Haematology Diagnosis. John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Conrady, R., & Buck, M. (Eds.). (2007). Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2007. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wachinger, C., Yigitsoy, M., & Navab, N. (2010). Manifold Learning for Image-Based Breathing Gating with Application to 4D Ultrasound. In T. Jiang, N. Navab, J. P. W. Pluim, & M. A. Viergever (Eds.), Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2010: 13th International Conference, Beijing, China, September 20-24, 2010, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 26–33). 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 / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, December 21). Underwater Robot Reveals Colorful Explosion Of Life Beneath Antarctica. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/underwater-robot-reveals-colorful-explosion-life-beneath-antarctica/

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. (1973). Certain Weaknesses in the Administration of the Neighborhood Youth Corps Out-of-School Project in Cleveland, Ohio (089487). 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

Eldridge, R. L. (2012). A Comparative Quantitative Study of Private College Audit Fee Behavior in a Highly Regulated Environment [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral 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

Crow, K. (2001, March 25). Columbia Roils Neighbors Again, Now Over an Elementary School. New York Times, 144.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benedetti-Cecchi, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Benedetti-Cecchi, 2000; Kaminski & Heimann, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Kaminski & Heimann, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Eden et al., 2002)

About the journal

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