How to format your references using the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 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	Download the output style file
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

1. Figer DF. Astrophysics: Monster star found hiding in plain sight. Nature. 2014;515:42–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Tremaroli V, Bäckhed F. Functional interactions between the gut microbiota and host metabolism. Nature. 2012;489:242–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Simon P, Gogotsi Y, Dunn B. Materials science. Where do batteries end and supercapacitors begin? Science. 2014;343:1210–1.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hafner M, Schmitz A, Grüne I, Srivatsan SG, Paul B, Kolanus W, et al. Inhibition of cytohesins by SecinH3 leads to hepatic insulin resistance. Nature. 2006;444:941–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bragg SM. The New CEO Corporate Leadership Manual. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Moritz EF, Haake S, editors. The Engineering of Sport 6: Volume 3: Developments for Innovation. New York, NY: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ortolani S, Giuffrida C, Crispo B. KLIMAX: Profiling Memory Write Patterns to Detect Keystroke-Harvesting Malware. In: Sommer R, Balzarotti D, Maier G, editors. Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection: 14th International Symposium, RAID 2011, Menlo Park, CA, USA, September 20-21, 2011 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 81–100.

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 International Journal of Behavioral Medicine.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Astronomers Find Smallest Galaxy With Supermassive Black Hole [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-find-smallest-galaxy-supermassive-black-hole/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Intellectual Property: Key Processes for Managing Patent Automation Strategy Need Stengthening. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Jun. Report No.: GAO-05-336.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Dusso AP. The psychology of institutional development: How parties’ willingness to accept risk affects the districts they draw and the seats they win [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2010.

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

1. Rothenberg B. How Penguins Make A Home on Road Ice. New York Times. 2017 May 6;D3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Abbreviation	Int. J. Behav. Med.
ISSN (print)	1070-5503
ISSN (online)	1532-7558
Scope	Applied Psychology