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

Ahmed, F. (2010). Health: Edible advice. Nature, 468(7327), S10-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oltvai, Z. N., & Barabási, A.-L. (2002). Systems biology. Life’s complexity pyramid. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5594), 763–764.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jönsson, T. J., Johnson, L. C., & Lowther, W. T. (2008). Structure of the sulphiredoxin-peroxiredoxin complex reveals an essential repair embrace. Nature, 451(7174), 98–101.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Shao, J., Griffin, R. J., Galanzha, E. I., Kim, J.-W., Koonce, N., Webber, J., Mustafa, T., Biris, A. S., Nedosekin, D. A., & Zharov, V. P. (2013). Photothermal nanodrugs: potential of TNF-gold nanospheres for cancer theranostics. Scientific Reports, 3, 1293.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rodman, G. B. (2014). Why Cultural Studies? John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Scheinemann, K., & Bouffet, E. (Eds.). (2015). Pediatric Neuro-oncology. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gepts, P., Aragão, F. J. L., Barros, E. de, Blair, M. W., Brondani, R., Broughton, W., Galasso, I., Hernández, G., Kami, J., Lariguet, P., McClean, P., Melotto, M., Miklas, P., Pauls, P., Pedrosa-Harand, A., Porch, T., Sánchez, F., Sparvoli, F., & Yu, K. (2008). Genomics of Phaseolus Beans, a Major Source of Dietary Protein and Micronutrients in the Tropics. In P. H. Moore & R. Ming (Eds.), Genomics of Tropical Crop Plants (pp. 113–143). 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 Computers in Human Behavior.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, December 16). Distant Exoplanets Around Other Stars More Likely To Be Ice Giants Like Neptune. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/distant-exoplanets-around-other-stars-more-likely-to-be-ice-giants-like-neptune/

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. (2000). Port Infrastructure: Financing of Navigation Projects at Small and Medium-Sized Ports (RCED-00-58). 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

Peto, J. (2009). A defense of Donald Davidson’s dissolution to the problem of global skepticism [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

Crow, K. (2003, June 29). Reservoir’s Sunken Fountain Is Rising From the Deep. New York Times, 145.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ahmed, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Ahmed, 2010; Oltvai & Barabási, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Oltvai & Barabási, 2002)
Three authors: (Jönsson et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Shao 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