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

Bennetzen, J. (2002). The rice genome. Opening the door to comparative plant biology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5565), 60–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruths, J., & Ruths, D. (2014). Network models. Response to Comment on “Control profiles of complex networks.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6209), 561.

A journal article with 3 authors

Blair, A. C., Fisher, E. R., & Rickey, D. (2012). IBI* series winner. Discovering nanoscience. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6098), 1056–1057.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dillehay, T. D., Ramírez, C., Pino, M., Collins, M. B., Rossen, J., & Pino-Navarro, J. D. (2008). Monte Verde: seaweed, food, medicine, and the peopling of South America. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5877), 784–786.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cronin, R. (2012). Reading Victorian Poetry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Muneesawang, P., Wu, F., Kumazawa, I., Roeksabutr, A., Liao, M., & Tang, X. (Eds.). (2009). Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - PCM 2009: 10th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Bangkok, Thailand, December 15-18, 2009 Proceedings (Vol. 5879). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Muller-Parker, G., D’Elia, C. F., & Cook, C. B. (2015). Interactions Between Corals and Their Symbiotic Algae. In C. Birkeland (Ed.), Coral Reefs in the Anthropocene (pp. 99–116). Springer Netherlands.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2016, September 6). It’s Official: NASA’s Next Mission To Mars Will Launch In 2018. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-next-mission-to-mars-will-launch-in-2018/

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. (1980). Review of the District of Columbia’s Automatic Data Processing Operations (GGD-80-103). 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

Nguyen, H. T. (2013). The ugly duckling: Juvenile delinquents in non-delinquent networks [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Grynbaum, M. M. (2017, October 25). Turning Up the Pro-Trump Volume. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bennetzen, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bennetzen, 2002; Ruths & Ruths, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ruths & Ruths, 2014)
Three authors: (Blair et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Dillehay et al., 2008)

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