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

Gatenby, R. A. (2009). A change of strategy in the war on cancer. Nature, 459(7246), 508–509.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sorensen, E. J., & Sammis, G. M. (2004). Chemistry. A dash of proline makes things sweet. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5691), 1725–1726.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lutz, W., Muttarak, R., & Striessnig, E. (2014). Environment and development. Universal education is key to enhanced climate adaptation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6213), 1061–1062.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wendel, H.-G., De Stanchina, E., Fridman, J. S., Malina, A., Ray, S., Kogan, S., et al. (2004). Survival signalling by Akt and eIF4E in oncogenesis and cancer therapy. Nature, 428(6980), 332–337.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barker, R. M., & Puckett, J. A. (2013). Design of Highway Bridges. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Astuto, M. (Ed.). (2009). Basics. Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Swami, N. V., Sirsat, N. B., & Holambe, P. R. (2016). Light Fidelity (Li-Fi): In Mobile Communication and Ubiquitous Computing Applications. In A. Chakrabarti, N. Sharma, & V. E. Balas (Eds.), Advances in Computing Applications (pp. 75–85). Singapore: 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

Luntz, S. (2014, April 26). Coldest Known Star Discovered Close To Our System. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/coldest-known-star-discovered-close-our-system/. 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. (2011). Homeland Security: Improvements in Managing Research and Development Could Help Reduce Inefficiencies and Costs (No. GAO-11-464T). 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

Lee, M. Y.-L. (2009). The intellectual origins of Lin Yutang’s cultural internationalism, 1928–1938 (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

Greenhouse, L. (2007, April 3). Supreme Court Turns Down Detainees’ Habeas Corpus Case. New York Times, p. A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gatenby 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Gatenby 2009; Sorensen and Sammis 2004).

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

Two authors: (Sorensen and Sammis 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wendel et al. 2004)

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