How to format your references using the Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. 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

Normile, D. 2000. “Strange Behavior at One Dimension.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 290 (5496): 1531.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheung, Gordon Y. C., and Michael Otto. 2015. “Microbiology: Diverted on the Way to Memory.” Nature 517 (7532): 28–29.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khor, Bernard, Agnès Gardet, and Ramnik J. Xavier. 2011. “Genetics and Pathogenesis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.” Nature 474 (7351): 307–317.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wang, Lei, Peng Yu, Lu Zhao, Chungui Tian, Dongdong Zhao, Wei Zhou, Jie Yin, Ruihong Wang, and Honggang Fu. 2014. “B and N Isolate-Doped Graphitic Carbon Nanosheets from Nitrogen-Containing Ion-Exchanged Resins for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction.” Scientific Reports 4 (June): 5184.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ben Chouikha, Mona. 2016. Organizational Design for Knowledge Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Houlsby, G. T. 2007. Principles of Hyperplasticity: An Approach to Plasticity Theory Based on Thermodynamic Principles. Edited by A. M. Puzrin. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Uteshev, Alexei Yu, and Marina V. Yashina. 2016. “On Maxwell’s Conjecture for Coulomb Potential Generated by Point Charges.” In Transactions on Computational Science XXVII, edited by Marina L. Gavrilova and C. J. Kenneth Tan, 68–80. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2017. “Nuclear Glass Helps Test How The Moon Formed.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1999. General Aviation Airports: Unauthorized Land Use Highlights Need for Improved Oversight and Enforcement. RCED-99-109. 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

Doddick, Sylvano. 2012. “Noncontact 2D Plethysmography: A Non-Invasive Technique for Monitoring Dynamic Trends in a Respiratory System.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Vecsey, George. 2010. “To Soccer Fan, Train Whistle Hits Perfect Pitch.” New York Times, March 21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Normile 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Normile 2000; Cheung and Otto 2015).

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

Two authors: (Cheung and Otto 2015)
Three authors: (Khor, Gardet, and Xavier 2011)
4 or more authors: (Wang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
Abbreviation	Emot. Behav. Diffic.
ISSN (print)	1363-2752
ISSN (online)	1741-2692
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Developmental and Educational Psychology