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. Egues JC. Physics. Fingerprinting spin qubits. Science. 2005;309:565–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Paul WE, Mage RG. Elvin A. Kabat (1914-2000). Nature. 2000;407:316.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Froemke RC, Merzenich MM, Schreiner CE. A synaptic memory trace for cortical receptive field plasticity. Nature. 2007;450:425–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wang Q, Zhang H, Ma G, Liao Y, Tang X, Zhong Z. Spectrum gaps of spin waves generated by interference in a uniform nanostripe waveguide. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5917.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kompare D. CSI. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

1. Hubálek Z. Microbial Zoonoses and Sapronoses. Rudolf I, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lamanna DD, Lodi G, Baldoni R. How Not to Be Seen in the Cloud: A Progressive Privacy Solution for Desktop-as-a-Service. In: Meersman R, Panetto H, Dillon T, Rinderle-Ma S, Dadam P, Zhou X, et al., editors. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012: Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2012, Rome, Italy, September 10-14, 2012 Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 492–510.

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. How Close Are We To Actually Becoming Martians? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-close-are-we-actually-becoming-martians/

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. Transatlantic Aviation: Effects of Easing Restrictions on U.S.-European Markets. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Jul. Report No.: GAO-04-835.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ressler KM. The path to leadership for Native American women at North Dakota tribal colleges [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2008.

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. Rojas R, Mueller B. Defiant Pledge Fought Back in Fatal Hazing, Report Says. New York Times. 2015 Sep 16;A1.

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