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. Watzman H. German researchers set to receive Israeli stem-cell shipment. Nature. 2003;421:199.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. LaCour MJ, Green DP. Political science. When contact changes minds: an experiment on transmission of support for gay equality. Science. 2014;346:1366–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Goldreich P, Lithwick Y, Sari R. Formation of Kuiper-belt binaries by dynamical friction and three-body encounters. Nature. 2002;420:643–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kuiken T, Rimmelzwaan G, van Riel D, van Amerongen G, Baars M, Fouchier R, et al. Avian H5N1 influenza in cats. Science. 2004;306:241.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Inness P, Dorling S. Operational Weather Forecasting. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

1. Vancso GJ, editor. Ordered Polymeric Nanostructures at Surfaces. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Babenko M, Kolesnichenko I, Starikovskaya T. On Minimal and Maximal Suffixes of a Substring. In: Fischer J, Sanders P, editors. Combinatorial Pattern Matching: 24th Annual Symposium, CPM 2013, Bad Herrenalb, Germany, June 17-19, 2013 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 28–37.

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. Hale T. The Average 20-Year-Old American Knows 42,000 Words, Claims Study - How Do You Compare? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/the-average-20yearold-american-knows-42000-words-claims-study/

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. Research and Development: Funding of Jet Aircraft Engines for Fiscal Years 1984-1988. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Mar. Report No.: NSIAD-89-12FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ratzlaff K. Dynamics of chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) infection in amphibians in the Rincon Mountains and Tucson, Arizona [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2012.

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. Cooper H. Pentagon, Seeking Transparency, Says 11,000 U.S. Troops Are in Afghanistan. New York Times. 2017 Aug 30;A8.

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