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

Trivedi, B. (2010). Learning from the elite. Nature, 466(7304), S4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoekstra, A. Y., & Wiedmann, T. O. (2014). Humanity’s unsustainable environmental footprint. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6188), 1114–1117.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rustagi, D., Engel, S., & Kosfeld, M. (2010). Conditional cooperation and costly monitoring explain success in forest commons management. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6006), 961–965.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

van Montfort, R. L. M., Congreve, M., Tisi, D., Carr, R., & Jhoti, H. (2003). Oxidation state of the active-site cysteine in protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B. Nature, 423(6941), 773–777.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lemberger, P., & Morel, M. (2012). Managing Complexity of Information Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nilius, B., & Flockerzi, V. (Eds.). (2014). Mammalian Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) Cation Channels: Volume II (Vol. 223). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bez, H. E. (2009). The Invariant Functions of the Rational Bi-cubic Bézier Surfaces. In E. R. Hancock, R. R. Martin, & M. A. Sabin (Eds.), Mathematics of Surfaces XIII: 13th IMA International Conference York, UK, September 7-9, 2009 Proceedings (pp. 55–74). 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

Fang, J. (2014, June 7). Scientists Develop Shatterproof iPhone Screens. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-develop-shatterproof-iphone-screens/

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). Deficiencies in the Recording and Reporting of Contractor-Held, Government-Owned Property, Goddard Space Flight Center (No. 092675). 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

Martin, J. C. (2008). Tbx18 and the epicardium in cardiac development and regenerative medicine [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego.

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

Wagner, J. (2016, December 3). Mets’ Young Starters Come at Bargain Price in 2017. New York Times, D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Trivedi, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hoekstra & Wiedmann, 2014; Trivedi, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Hoekstra & Wiedmann, 2014)
Three authors: (Rustagi et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (van Montfort et al., 2003)

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

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