How to format your references using the Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: an Open Access Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: an Open Access Journal. 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

Schilling, G. (2000). Sloan Digital Sky Survey. A hundred million points of light. Nature, 407(6804), 557.

A journal article with 2 authors

Georgiou, G., & Masip, L. (2003). Biochemistry. An overoxidation journey with a return ticket. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5619), 592–594.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhong, Y., Zhang, L., & Su, D. (2000). Collaborations tailored for bioinformatics projects. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5499), 2074a.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rodríguez Martínez, M. del C., Ortíz Ceballos, P., Coe, M. D., Diehl, R. A., Houston, S. D., Taube, K. A., & Delgado Calderón, A. (2006). Oldest writing in the New World. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5793), 1610–1614.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Irene, E. A. (2005). Electronic Materials Science. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

LaBelle, J. W., & Treumann, R. A. (Eds.). (2006). Geospace Electromagnetic Waves and Radiation (Vol. 687). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nestel, D., Rempoulakis, P., Yanovski, L., Miranda, M. A., & Papadopoulos, N. T. (2016). The Evolution of Alternative Control Strategies in a Traditional Crop: Economy and Policy as Drivers of Olive Fly Control. In A. R. Horowitz & I. Ishaaya (Eds.), Advances in Insect Control and Resistance Management (pp. 47–76). Springer International Publishing.

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 Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: an Open Access Journal.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017, June 1). Exxon Mobil Shareholders Pass Historic Climate Motion. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/exxon-mobil-shareholders-pass-historic-climate-motion/

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. (1976). Report to the Secretary, HEW, on the National Direct Student Loan Delinquency Rate (HRD-77-17). 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

Anaya, S. (2009). Animo clinician training program for detection and treatment of depression during pregnancy and postpartum depression in low income Latina women a grant proposal project [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

Lyons, M., & Poniewozik, J. (2016, August 24). Oh, TV of Little Faith. New York Times, AR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schilling, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Georgiou & Masip, 2003; Schilling, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Georgiou & Masip, 2003)
Three authors: (Zhong et al., 2000)
6 or more authors: (Rodríguez Martínez et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: an Open Access Journal
Abbreviation	Health Psychol. Behav. Med.
ISSN (online)	2164-2850
Scope