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

Landry, C. R. (2011). Cell biology. A cellular roadmap for the plant kingdom. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6042), 532–533.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jakosky, B. M., & Phillips, R. J. (2001). Mars’ volatile and climate history. Nature, 412(6843), 237–244.

A journal article with 3 authors

Psaltis, D., Quake, S. R., & Yang, C. (2006). Developing optofluidic technology through the fusion of microfluidics and optics. Nature, 442(7101), 381–386.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sato, Y., Yoshikawa, A., Yamagata, A., Mimura, H., Yamashita, M., Ookata, K., Nureki, O., Iwai, K., Komada, M., & Fukai, S. (2008). Structural basis for specific cleavage of Lys 63-linked polyubiquitin chains. Nature, 455(7211), 358–362.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goossens, F. (2015). How to Implement Market Models Using VBA. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Peterson, D. L., Vose, J. M., & Patel-Weynand, T. (Eds.). (2014). Climate Change and United States Forests (Vol. 57). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Friederich, U., Coca, D., Billings, S., & Juusola, M. (2009). Data Modelling for Analysis of Adaptive Changes in Fly Photoreceptors. In C. S. Leung, M. Lee, & J. H. Chan (Eds.), Neural Information Processing: 16th International Conference, ICONIP 2009, Bangkok, Thailand, December 1-5, 2009, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 34–48). 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 Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, November 22). First Ever Footage Of Terrifying Deep-Sea Animal. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rarely-seen-anglerfish-caught-california-coast/

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. (2010). Rail Safety: Federal Railroad Administration Should Report on Risks to the Successful Implementation of Mandated Safety Technology (GAO-11-133). 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

Bryant, T. L. (2017). The Influence of High School Preparation on Black Male Students’ Ability to Succeed at the Post-Secondary Level [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Otis, J. (2017, September 9). Academy Eases the Angst of Adolescent Refugees. New York Times, A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Landry, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Jakosky & Phillips, 2001; Landry, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Jakosky & Phillips, 2001)
Three authors: (Psaltis et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Sato et al., 2008)

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

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