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

Dalton R. US Geological Survey needs more resources, says draft report. Nature 2000; 407:933.

A journal article with 2 authors

Felzer KR, Brodsky EE. Decay of aftershock density with distance indicates triggering by dynamic stress. Nature 2006; 441:735–738.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grünwald D, Singer RH, Rout M. Nuclear export dynamics of RNA-protein complexes. Nature 2011; 475:333–341.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Buckley MJ, Mansouri FA, Hoda H, et al. Dissociable components of rule-guided behavior depend on distinct medial and prefrontal regions. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2009; 325:52–58.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kerzner H. (2017) Project Management Case Studies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bortz JH, Ramlaul A, Munro L eds. (2016) CT Colonography for Radiographers: A Guide to Performance and Image Interpretation. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Saif H, He Y, Fernandez M, et al. (2014) Adapting Sentiment Lexicons Using Contextual Semantics for Sentiment Analysis of Twitter. In: Presutti V, Blomqvist E, Troncy R, et al., eds. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2014 Satellite Events: ESWC 2014 Satellite Events, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 54–63.

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

Hamilton K. (2014) What Would Happen If The Earth Were Flat?https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-would-happen-if-earth-was-flat/ (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. (1997) Higher Education: Verification Helps Prevent Student Aid Payments to Ineligible Noncitizens. 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

Hasbini MA. (2017) The Great Recession of 2007 and the Housing Market Crash: Why Did So Many Builders Fail? Lessons for the Local Homebuilding Industry. 2017.

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 C. (2013) One Talk Show That Will Never Book a Kardashian. New York Times. October 6, 2013:A25B.

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
Scope