How to format your references using the Eating Behaviors citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Eating Behaviors. 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

Smaglik, P. (2003). Science rocks. Nature, 424(6945), 233.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rafii, S., & Lyden, D. (2008). Cancer. A few to flip the angiogenic switch. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5860), 163–164.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morgan, M. G., Houghton, A., & Gibbons, J. H. (2001). Science and government. Improving science and technology advice for Congress. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5537), 1999–2000.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

van Dam, J. A., Nazarov, Y. V., Bakkers, E. P. A. M., De Franceschi, S., & Kouwenhoven, L. P. (2006). Supercurrent reversal in quantum dots. Nature, 442(7103), 667–670.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Todeschini, R., & Baccini, A. (2016). Handbook of Bibliometric Indicators. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Junger-Tas, J., & Decker, S. H. (Eds.). (2006). International Handbook of Juvenile Justice. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Du, D., Jiang, B., & Shi, P. (2015). Sensor Fault Estimation and Compensation for Switched Systems with State Delay. In B. Jiang & P. Shi (Eds.), Fault Tolerant Control for Switched Linear Systems (pp. 61–78). Springer International Publishing.

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 Eating Behaviors.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, March 25). New 4D Ultrasound Scans Reveal Effects of Smoking on a Fetus. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-4d-ultrasound-scans-reveal-effects-smoking-fetus/

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. (1995). Nonimmigrant Visa Processing (NSIAD-95-122R). 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

Shakya, S. (2013). Characterization of Interaction of Calmodulin and its Chimeras with Orai1 [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Knight, M. (2013, May 31). Ms. Ubiquity. New York Times, MM32.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Rafii & Lyden, 2008; Smaglik, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Rafii & Lyden, 2008)
Three or more authors: (van Dam et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Eating Behaviors
Abbreviation	Eat. Behav.
ISSN (print)	1471-0153
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology