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

Goldston, D. (2008). Financial planning. Nature, 454(7205), 680.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hawthorne, D. J., & Via, S. (2001). Genetic linkage of ecological specialization and reproductive isolation in pea aphids. Nature, 412(6850), 904–907.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jeganathan, K. B., Malureanu, L., & van Deursen, J. M. (2005). The Rae1-Nup98 complex prevents aneuploidy by inhibiting securin degradation. Nature, 438(7070), 1036–1039.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Cohen, G. L., Garcia, J., Apfel, N., & Master, A. (2006). Reducing the racial achievement gap: a social-psychological intervention. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5791), 1307–1310.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ursone, P. (2015). How to Calculate Options Prices and Their Greeks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gilbert, J. K. (Ed.). (2005). Visualization in Science Education (Vol. 1). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Tveito, A., Langtangen, H. P., Nielsen, B. F., & Cai, X. (2010). Nonlinear Algebraic Equations. In H. P. Langtangen, B. F. Nielsen, & X. Cai (Eds.), Elements of Scientific Computing (pp. 99–145). 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, D. (2016, November 9). In Defence Of Racer Snakes – The Demons Of Planet Earth II (They’re Only After A Meal). IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/in-defence-of-racer-snakes-the-demons-of-planet-earth-ii-theyre-only-after-a-meal/

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. (1993). Aircraft Certification: FAA Can Better Meet Challenges Posed by Advances in Aircraft Technologies (T-RCED-94-53). 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

Hudson, K. R. (2012). Student perception of teachers’ National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education and California Commission on Teacher Credentialing dispositions [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Brantley, B. (2017, August 15). Curtain’s Up. Adulthood Can Wait. New York Times, C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Goldston, 2008; Hawthorne & Via, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Hawthorne & Via, 2001)
Three authors: (Jeganathan et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Cohen et al., 2006)

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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