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

Meunier, B. (2002). Chemistry. Catalytic degradation of chlorinated phenols. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5566), 270–271.

A journal article with 2 authors

Isalan, M., & Morrison, M. (2009). This title is false. Nature, 458(7241), 969.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wittlinger, M., Wehner, R., & Wolf, H. (2006). The ant odometer: stepping on stilts and stumps. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5782), 1965–1967.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Reed, T. E., Daunt, F., Hall, M. E., Phillips, R. A., Wanless, S., & Cunningham, E. J. A. (2008). Parasite treatment affects maternal investment in sons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5896), 1681–1682.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bamfield, P. (2006). Research and Development in the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Yang, C. C., Zeng, D., Chau, M., Chang, K., Yang, Q., Cheng, X., Wang, J., Wang, F.-Y., & Chen, H. (Eds.). (2007). Intelligence and Security Informatics: Pacific Asia Workshop, PAISI 2007, Chengdu, China, April 11-12, 2007. Proceedings (Vol. 4430). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Šalak, A., & Selecká, M. (2012). Alloying and sintering of manganese steels by manganese vapour. In M. Selecká (Ed.), Manganese in Powder Metallurgy Steels (pp. 39–71). Cambridge International Science Publishing Ltd.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, May 27). Thunder God Vine Extract Makes Obese Mice Rapidly Shed The Pounds. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/plant-extract-makes-obese-mice-rapidly-shed-pounds/

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. (1999). Aviation: Comparison of Airline “Customer Service Commitment” With Contracts of Carriage and Federal Law (RCED-99-281R). 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

Robinson-Scott, D. (2010). Policy analysis of the Chafee Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kelly, M. (1992, October 16). The Surrounding Scene; It Seemed Like Donahue. But With Bush, Clinton and Perot, It Sure Wasn’t. New York Times, A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Meunier, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Isalan & Morrison, 2009; Meunier, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Isalan & Morrison, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Reed et al., 2008)

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