How to format your references using the Journal of Behavioral Health and Psychology citation style

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

Heeney JL. Ebola: Hidden reservoirs. Nature 2015; 527(7579): 453–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Parvatiyar K, Harhaj EW. Cell signaling. Anchors away for ubiquitin chains. Science 2010; 328(5983): 1244–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kalokairinou L, Howard HC, Borry P. Science and Regulation. Changes on the horizon for consumer genomics in the EU. Science 2014; 346(6207): 296–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wu F-X, Wu L, Wang J, Liu J, Chen L. Transittability of complex networks and its applications to regulatory biomolecular networks. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 4819.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mesterton-Gibbons M. A Concrete Approach to Mathematical Modelling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

McSweeney PLH, Fox PF, eds. Advanced Dairy Chemistry: Volume 1A: Proteins: Basic Aspects, 4th Edition, 4th ed. 2013. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Gómez de Castro AI. Hot Gas in Accretion Disks and Jets: An UV View of Star Formation. In: Tsinganos K, Ray T, Stute M, eds. Protostellar Jets in Context. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 43–9. (Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings).

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 Health and Psychology.

Blog post

Fang J. Chimps “Talk” to Each Other About Their Favorite Fruit Trees [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chimps-talk-each-other-about-fruits-and-trees/

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. National Airspace System: Incomplete Transition Back to National Maintenance and Certification Standards in the Federal Aviation Administration’s Alaskan Region. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001 Nov. Report No.: GAO-02-127R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Urquidi AJ. Condolences to all of you: Late eulogies of a half-complacent birthday boy [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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

Pilon M. Amid Storm Recovery, Marathon Expo Opens Doors to Runners. New York Times 2012; B10.

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	Journal of Behavioral Health and Psychology
ISSN (print)	2832-4579
Scope