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

Vinson, V. J. (2009). Proteins in motion. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5924), 197.

A journal article with 2 authors

Etienne, R. S., & Rosindell, J. (2012). Comment on “Global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance reject neutrality.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6089), 1639; author reply 1639.

A journal article with 3 authors

Okabe, Y., Sano, T., & Nagata, S. (2009). Regulation of the innate immune response by threonine-phosphatase of Eyes absent. Nature, 460(7254), 520–524.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ferrer, M., Golyshina, O. V., Beloqui, A., Golyshin, P. N., & Timmis, K. N. (2007). The cellular machinery of Ferroplasma acidiphilum is iron-protein-dominated. Nature, 445(7123), 91–94.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sutt, J., Lill, I., & Müürsepp, O. (2013). The Engineer’s Manual of Construction Site Planning. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Blanc-Talon, J., Philips, W., Popescu, D., & Scheunders, P. (Eds.). (2009). Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: 11th International Conference, ACIVS 2009, Bordeaux, France, September 28–October 2, 2009. Proceedings (Vol. 5807). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Faude, O., & Donath, L. (2016). Thermoregulation During Marathon Running. In C. Zinner & B. Sperlich (Eds.), Marathon Running: Physiology, Psychology, Nutrition and Training Aspects (pp. 69–81). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrews, R. (2016, July 5). UN Declares That Internet Restrictions Violate Human Rights. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/un-declares-that-internet-restrictions-violate-human-rights/. 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). Visibility and Leadership: The Changing Federal Role in Education (No. 147976). 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

Marlatt, E. S. (2013). Effects of accelerated instruction on achievement gains of underprepared Catholic high school freshmen (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Crow, K. (2001, June 3). For New Trump Neighbors, Proximity Breeds Discontent. New York Times, p. 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vinson 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Etienne and Rosindell 2012; Vinson 2009).

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

Two authors: (Etienne and Rosindell 2012)
Three or more authors: (Ferrer et al. 2007)

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