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

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

Gershon, D. (2000). Pushing the frontiers of interdisciplinary research: an idea whose time has come. Nature, 404(6775), 313–315.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, H.-L., & Lai, T. W. (2014). Optimization of Evans blue quantitation in limited rat tissue samples. Scientific Reports, 4, 6588.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gao, G., Guo, X., & Goff, S. P. (2002). Inhibition of retroviral RNA production by ZAP, a CCCH-type zinc finger protein. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5587), 1703–1706.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Menon, S., Hansen, J., Nazarenko, L., & Luo, Y. (2002). Climate effects of black carbon aerosols in China and India. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5590), 2250–2253.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cohen, C. (2013). Business Intelligence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sakurai, T. (Ed.). (2008). The Hinode Mission. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rangnekar, A., & LaBean, T. H. (2014). Tile-Based DNA Nano-assemblies. In J. Kjems, E. Ferapontova, & K. V. Gothelf (Eds.), Nucleic Acid Nanotechnology (pp. 71–92). 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 Contextual Behavioral Science.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, August 16). How Your Parent’s Lifespan Affects Your Health. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1969). Review of Selected Aspects of The Management and Operation of Tracking and Data Acquisition Stations at Goldstone, California (D12925). 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

Tucker, C. M. (2010). End-stage renal disease patients and dialysis: Can consistent transportation influence quality of life and treatment compliance? A grant writing project [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Phillips-Sandy, M. (2013, December 28). Follow Me, Follow My Mom. New York Times, A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon, 2000; Wang & Lai, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wang & Lai, 2014)
Three authors: (Gao et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Menon et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
Abbreviation	J. Contextual Behav. Sci.
ISSN (print)	2212-1447
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Behavioral Neuroscience Applied Psychology Health(social science)