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

Smaglik, Paul. 2002. “A Youthful Field.” Nature 419 (6908): 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abel, Guy J., and Nikola Sander. 2014. “Quantifying Global International Migration Flows.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 343 (6178): 1520–1522.

A journal article with 3 authors

Otto, Sonja B., Björn C. Rall, and Ulrich Brose. 2007. “Allometric Degree Distributions Facilitate Food-Web Stability.” Nature 450 (7173): 1226–1229.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gordon, Jeffrey M., Daniel Feuermann, Mahmoud Huleihil, Solly Mizrahi, and Ruthy Shaco-Levy. 2003. “Fibre Optics: Surgery by Sunlight on Live Animals.” Nature 424 (6948): 510.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mihajlovic-Madzarevic, Vera. 2010. Clinical Trials Audit Preparation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

de Almeida, Alzira Maria Paiva, and Nilma Cintra Leal, eds. 2012. Advances in Yersinia Research. Vol. 954. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Fleige, Andreas. 2007. “A Necessary Aspect of the Generalized Beals Condition for the Riesz Basis Property of Indefinite Sturm-Liouville Problems.” In Operator Theory in Inner Product Spaces, edited by Karl-Heinz Förster, Peter Jonas, Heinz Langer, and Carsten Trunk, 89–94. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. Basel: Birkhäuser.

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

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Sneezing Flings Your Spit and Germs 200 Times Further Than Previously Thought.” 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. 2005. Chief Information Officers: Responsibilities and Information Technology Governance at Leading Private-Sector Companies. GAO-05-986. 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

Amos, Anthea E. 2010. “Perceptions of the Persistent: Academic Experiences of First Generation Community College Students.” Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Kovaleski, Serge F. 2015. “All the Presidents’ Memorabilia.” New York Times, January 28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2002; Abel and Sander 2014).

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

Two authors: (Abel and Sander 2014)
Three authors: (Otto, Rall, and Brose 2007)
4 or more authors: (Gordon et al. 2003)

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