How to format your references using the Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 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

Eisenstein M. Vaccines: Know your enemy. Nature 2011; 471:S8-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Engel MS, Grimaldi DA. New light shed on the oldest insect. Nature 2004; 427:627–630.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mori MX, Erickson MG, Yue DT. Functional stoichiometry and local enrichment of calmodulin interacting with Ca2+ channels. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2004; 304:432–435.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Unlu M, Hashemi MR, Berry CW, et al. Switchable scattering meta-surfaces for broadband terahertz modulation. Scientific reports 2014; 4:5708.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruehli AE, Antonini G, Jiang L. (2017) Circuit Oriented Electromagnetic Modeling Using the Peec Techniques. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yu M-H. (2012) Computational Plasticity: With Emphasis on the Application of the Unified Strength Theory. (Li J-C, ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yamamoto A. (2010) Molecular basis for specification of the vertebrate head field. In: Sasano T, Suzuki O, eds. Interface Oral Health Science 2009. Tokyo: Springer Japan, pp. 27–32.

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 Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.

Blog post

Carpineti A. (2016) NASA Probes Reveal Current In Earth’s Radiation Belts Is Not As Expected.https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasas-probes-show-space-ring-current-not-expected/ (accessed Oct.30 2018).

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. (2011) National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Acquisition Approach for Commercial Crew Transportation Includes Good Practices, but Faces Significant Challenges. Washington, DC: 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

Romano TA. (2014) Time-frequency classification of gamma oscillatory activity in the frontoparietal system during working memory. 2014.

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

Stewart JB. (2017) C.E.O.s Long Avoided Politics. Trump Is Changing the Calculus. New York Times. August 17, 2017:B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
ISSN (print)	2152-2715
ISSN (online)	2152-2723
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