How to format your references using the Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. 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

Smaglik, P. (2004). Ghosts in the machine. Nature, 427(6977), 867.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hauert, C., & Doebeli, M. (2004). Spatial structure often inhibits the evolution of cooperation in the snowdrift game. Nature, 428(6983), 643–646.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chiou, P. Y., Ohta, A. T., & Wu, M. C. (2005). Massively parallel manipulation of single cells and microparticles using optical images. Nature, 436(7049), 370–372.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Charras, G. T., Yarrow, J. C., Horton, M. A., Mahadevan, L., & Mitchison, T. J. (2005). Non-equilibration of hydrostatic pressure in blebbing cells. Nature, 435(7040), 365–369.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mullaney, M. D. (2009). The Complete Guide to Option Strategies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chan, C. K. K., & Rao, N. (Eds.). (2010). Revisiting The Chinese Learner: Changing Contexts, Changing Education (Vol. 25). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Shah, O., & Marien, T. (2013). Ureteral and Ureteroenteric Strictures. In M. Monga (Ed.), Ureteroscopy: Indications, Instrumentation & Technique (pp. 55–72). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

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 Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, May 26). Researchers Discover An Island Made Almost Entirely From Fish Poo. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2001). HUD Information Systems: Immature Software Acquisition Capability Increases Project Risks (No. GAO-01-962). 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

Yobby, J. (2017). Application of Genetic Algorithm Optimization of Thermodynamic Fluids Designs (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Barron, J. (2017, September 26). Harlem Rezoning Proposal Would Create Memorial To African Burial Ground. New York Times, p. A28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Hauert and Doebeli 2004; Smaglik 2004).

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

Two authors: (Hauert and Doebeli 2004)
Three or more authors: (Charras et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
Abbreviation	Integr. Psychol. Behav. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1932-4502
ISSN (online)	1936-3567
Scope	Philosophy Applied Psychology Social Psychology Anthropology Communication Cultural Studies