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

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

Hampsey, M. (2012). Molecular biology. A new direction for gene loops. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6107), 624–625.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fuller, M. T., & Spradling, A. C. (2007). Male and female Drosophila germline stem cells: two versions of immortality. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5823), 402–404.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, C., Bobisch, C. A., & Ho, W. (2009). Visualization of Fermi’s golden rule through imaging of light emission from atomic silver chains. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5943), 981–985.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Li, Y., Ben, T., Zhang, B., Fu, Y., & Qiu, S. (2013). Ultrahigh gas storage both at low and high pressures in KOH-activated carbonized porous aromatic frameworks. Scientific reports, 3, 2420.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva, L. S., Simões, R., & Gervásio, H. (2012). Design of Steel Structures. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Weigel, S., & Scharbert, G. (Eds.). (2016). A Neuro-Psychoanalytical Dialogue for Bridging Freud and the Neurosciences (1st ed. 2016.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Gordon, M., & Collavizza, H. (2010). Forward with Hoare. In A. W. Roscoe, C. B. Jones, & K. R. Wood (Eds.), Reflections on the Work of C.A.R. Hoare (pp. 101–121). London: 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 Behavioral Medicine.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, June 29). Why We Shouldn’t Label GMO Foods. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-we-shouldnt-label-gmo-foods/. 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. (2016). Hazardous Materials Transportation: Better Guidance and Planning Could Enhance DOT’s Explosives Classification Oversight (No. GAO-16-715). 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

Garcia-Benitez, C. (2010). Support program to facilitate achievement for emancipated foster youth to succeed in college (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Burghardt, L. F. (2008, March 9). For Sabbath on Saturdays, Fewer Open Shops. New York Times, p. LI13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hampsey 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Fuller and Spradling 2007; Hampsey 2012).

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

Two authors: (Fuller and Spradling 2007)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Behav. Med.
ISSN (print)	0160-7715
ISSN (online)	1573-3521
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health General Psychology