How to format your references using the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. 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

Gee, H. (2012). Developmental biology: a brainy background. Nature, 483(7389), 280.

A journal article with 2 authors

Otsuki, M., & Matsukawa, H. (2013). Systematic breakdown of Amontons’ law of friction for an elastic object locally obeying Amontons’ law. Scientific Reports, 3, 1586.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shen, Y., Knoll, A. H., & Walter, M. R. (2003). Evidence for low sulphate and anoxia in a mid-Proterozoic marine basin. Nature, 423(6940), 632–635.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Madon, T., Hofman, K. J., Kupfer, L., & Glass, R. I. (2007). Public health. Implementation science. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5857), 1728–1729.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rider, M. J. (2015). Design and Analysis of Mechanisms. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Hazelwood, R. R. (Ed.). (2015). Wives of Child Molesters Within the Family. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Vejda, T., Toegl, R., Pirker, M., & Winkler, T. (2008). Towards Trust Services for Language-Based Virtual Machines for Grid Computing. In P. Lipp, A.-R. Sadeghi, & K.-M. Koch (Eds.), Trusted Computing - Challenges and Applications: First International Conference on Trusted Computing and Trust in Information Technologies, Trust 2008 Villach, Austria, March 11-12, 2008 Proceedings (pp. 48–59). Springer.

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 Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, June 5). Lunar Samples Support Giant Impact Theory. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/lunar-samples-support-giant-impact-theory/

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. (2013). Space Acquisitions: DOD Is Overcoming Long-Standing Problems, but Faces Challenges to Ensuring Its Investments Are Optimized (GAO-13-508T). 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

Jobanputra, M. C. (2002). Investigation of Organic Thin Films for Application in Electro-optic Devices [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Mueller, B., & Baker, A. L. (2016, February 18). In the South Bronx, a Police Precinct Where Murder Persists. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gee, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Gee, 2012; Otsuki & Matsukawa, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Otsuki & Matsukawa, 2013)
Three authors: (Shen et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Madon et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
Abbreviation	J. Behav. Ther. Exp. Psychiatry
ISSN (print)	0005-7916
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology