How to format your references using the Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Bergman, L. (2005). Damned if you don’t. Nature, 435(7044), 1002.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anderson, B. L., & Winawer, J. (2005). Image segmentation and lightness perception. Nature, 434(7029), 79–83.

A journal article with 3 authors

Harrington, J., Palethorpe, S., & Watson, C. I. (2000). Does the Queen speak the Queen’s English? Nature, 408(6815), 927–928.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Anandakrishnan, S., Catania, G. A., Alley, R. B., & Horgan, H. J. (2007). Discovery of till deposition at the grounding line of Whillans Ice Stream. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5820), 1835–1838.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. (1995). Guidelines for Technical Planning for on-site Emergencies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mason, C., & Rawlings-Sanaei, F. (Eds.). (2014). Academic Migration, Discipline Knowledge and Pedagogical Practice: Voices from the Asia-Pacific. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Porter, L. M., & Garber, P. A. (2009). Social Behavior of Callimicos: Mating Strategies and Infant Care. In S. M. Ford, L. M. Porter, & L. C. Davis (Eds.), The Smallest Anthropoids: The Marmoset/Callimico Radiation (pp. 87–101). Springer US.

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 Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, May 5). This Autonomous Robot Performed Surgery On A Live Pig. 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. (2017). Immigration Benefits System: Significant Risks in USCIS’s Efforts to Develop its Adjudication and Case Management System (GAO-17-486T). 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

Cardillo-Geller, L. (2010). Renegotiating relationships, patterns of grief and experiences of support: An examination of mothers’ relationships with their daughters following daughters’ loss of a husband in the September 11 th, 2001 World Trade Center attacks [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia 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

O’connor, J. (2016, September 13). Biking Through Badlands. New York Times, TR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bergman, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Anderson & Winawer, 2005; Bergman, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Anderson & Winawer, 2005)
Three authors: (Harrington et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Anandakrishnan et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention
Abbreviation	Evid. Based Commun. Assess. Interv.
ISSN (print)	1748-9539
ISSN (online)	1748-9547
Scope	Rehabilitation Cognitive Neuroscience Linguistics and Language Speech and Hearing