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

McFall-Ngai, M. (2007). Adaptive immunity: care for the community. Nature, 445(7124), 153.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tian, C., & Zheng, J. C. (2011). Reprogrammed Astrocytes as a Potential Therapy for Neurodegenerative Disorders. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6063 Suppl), 53–54.

A journal article with 3 authors

Noborisaka, J., Nishiguchi, K., & Fujiwara, A. (2014). Electric tuning of direct-indirect optical transitions in silicon. Scientific Reports, 4, 6950.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Penner, O., Pan, R. K., Petersen, A. M., Kaski, K., & Fortunato, S. (2013). On the predictability of future impact in science. Scientific Reports, 3, 3052.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Phillips, J. J., Trotter, W. D., & Phillips, P. P. (2015). Maximizing the Value of Consulting. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Coticchio, G., Albertini, D. F., & De Santis, L. (Eds.). (2013). Oogenesis. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chini, I. (2008). ICT policy as a governance domain: The case of Greece and the European Commission. In C. Avgerou, M. L. Smith, & P. van der Besselaar (Eds.), Social Dimensions Of Information And Communication Technology Policy: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC8), IFIP TC 9, Pretoria, South Africa, September 25-26, 2008 (pp. 45–62). Springer US.

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. (2015, October 8). Scientists Reveal Birth Date Of Earth’s Inner Core. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-reveal-birth-date-earths-inner-core/

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. (1969). Federal Support for Research and Education: Costs and Benefits (091170). 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

Zhao, J. (2012). Contextual Differential Item Functioning: Examining the Validity of Teaching Self-Efficacy Instruments Using Hierarchical Generalized Linear Modeling [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Saslow, L. (2007, June 24). 6 Proposed School Budgets Pass in Revote. New York Times, LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McFall-Ngai, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (McFall-Ngai, 2007; Tian & Zheng, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Tian & Zheng, 2011)
Three authors: (Noborisaka et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Penner et al., 2013)

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