How to format your references using the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 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

1. Bystricky M. Geophysics. Mantle flow revisited. Science. 2003;301:1190–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sherkow JS, Greely HT. Genomics. What if extinction is not forever? Science. 2013;340:32–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Daeschler EB, Shubin NH, Jenkins FA Jr. A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan. Nature. 2006;440:757–63.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Shen C, Wang X, Zhang W, Kang F. Direct prototyping of patterned nanoporous carbon: a route from materials to on-chip devices. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2294.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Verdu J. Oxidative Ageing of Polymers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Lin D, Tsudik G, Wang X, editors. Cryptology and Network Security: 10th International Conference, CANS 2011, Sanya, China, December 10-12, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Meiwes KJ, Meesenburg H, Eichhorn J, Jacobsen C, Khanna PK. Changes in C and N Contents of Soils Under Beech Forests over a Period of 35 Years. In: Brumme R, Khanna PK, editors. Functioning and Management of European Beech Ecosystems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 49–63.

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 Nutrition and Physical Activity.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. We Need More Than Just New Antibiotics To Fight Superbugs [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/we-need-more-just-new-antibiotics-fight-superbugs/

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. Spectrum Management: FCC’s Licensing Approach in the 11, 18, and 23 Gigahertz Bands Currently Supports Spectrum Availability and Efficiency. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Nov. Report No.: GAO-13-78R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lee S. Control-display alignment modulates dimensional salience [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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. Wagner J. Returning for Friendship, and Drums. New York Times. 2017 Mar 11;SP3.

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 Nutrition and Physical Activity
Abbreviation	Int. J. Behav. Nutr. Phys. Act.
ISSN (online)	1479-5868
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Nutrition and Dietetics Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation