How to format your references using the Computers in Human Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computers in Human Behavior. 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	Download the output style file
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

Finkelstein, G. (2001). Essays on science and society. Romanticism, race, and recapitulation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5549), 2101–2102.

A journal article with 2 authors

Francesconi, M., & Lehner, B. (2014). The effects of genetic variation on gene expression dynamics during development. Nature, 505(7482), 208–211.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gaucher, E. A., Govindarajan, S., & Ganesh, O. K. (2008). Palaeotemperature trend for Precambrian life inferred from resurrected proteins. Nature, 451(7179), 704–707.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jaccard, S. L., Haug, G. H., Sigman, D. M., Pedersen, T. F., Thierstein, H. R., & Röhl, U. (2005). Glacial/interglacial changes in subarctic north pacific stratification. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5724), 1003–1006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hirsch, F., Kemp, J., & Ilkka, J. (2006). Mobile Web Services. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Dye, S. T. (Ed.). (2007). Neutrino Geophysics: Proceedings of Neutrino Sciences 2005. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lőw, P., Molnár, K., & Kriska, G. (2016). Dissection of a Snail (Helix pomatia). In K. Molnár & G. Kriska (Eds.), Atlas of Animal Anatomy and Histology (pp. 49–77). 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 Computers in Human Behavior.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017, January 31). Eruption Causes Alaskan Island To Double In Size In Just One Month. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/eruption-alaskan-island-double-size-one-month/

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. (1982). Discontinuance of Social Security Student Benefits (117523). 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

Jang, S. H. (2010). Interpretation of extended techniques in unaccompanied flute works by East-Asian composers: Isang Yun, Toru Takemitsu, and Kazuo Fukushima [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

Wines, M. (2017, May 27). Rebuked Twice by Supreme Court, North Carolina Republicans Are Unfazed. New York Times, A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Finkelstein, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Finkelstein, 2001; Francesconi & Lehner, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Francesconi & Lehner, 2014)
Three authors: (Gaucher et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Jaccard et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computers in Human Behavior
Abbreviation	Comput. Human Behav.
ISSN (print)	0747-5632
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Human-Computer Interaction General Psychology