How to format your references using the Journal of Behavioral Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Behavioral Education. 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

Pilling, M. J. (2014). Chemical Kinetics. Calculating the pressure dependence of chemical reactions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6214), 1183–1184.

A journal article with 2 authors

Furusawa, C., & Kaneko, K. (2012). A dynamical-systems view of stem cell biology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6104), 215–217.

A journal article with 3 authors

Luhmann, H. J., Kirischuk, S., & Kilb, W. (2014). Comment on “Local impermeant anions establish the neuronal chloride concentration.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6201), 1130.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhou, J., Jia, W., Huang, C.-B., & Hess, R. F. (2013). The effect of unilateral mean luminance on binocular combination in normal and amblyopic vision. Scientific reports, 3, 2012.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cragg, P. J. (2006). A Practical Guide to Supramolecular Chemistry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bouhafs, F. (2014). Communication Challenges and Solutions in the Smart Grid. (M. Mackay & M. Merabti, Eds.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Charles, K. E., & Egan, V. (2008). Sensational and Extreme Interests in Adolescents. In R. N. Kocsis (Ed.), Serial Murder and the Psychology of Violent Crimes (pp. 63–83). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

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 Behavioral Education.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, June 5). Pluto’s Moons Are In “Absolute Chaos.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/moons-chaos/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1992). Transportation Issues (No. OCG-93-14TR). Washington, DC: 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

Dooling, S. M. (2013). Like A Unicorn in Captivity (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Khodarkovsky, M. (2017, May 18). Russia’s age-old identity question. New York Times, p. 0.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pilling 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Furusawa and Kaneko 2012; Pilling 2014).

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

Two authors: (Furusawa and Kaneko 2012)
Three or more authors: (Zhou et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Behavioral Education
Abbreviation	J. Behav. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1053-0819
ISSN (online)	1573-3513
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education