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

Kreeger, K. (2003). From bench to bedside. Nature, 424(6952), 1090–1091.

A journal article with 2 authors

Karsenty, G., & Ferron, M. (2012). The contribution of bone to whole-organism physiology. Nature, 481(7381), 314–320.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song, J., Gao, X., & Galán, J. E. (2013). Structure and function of the Salmonella Typhi chimaeric A(2)B(5) typhoid toxin. Nature, 499(7458), 350–354.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Murata, K., Mitsuoka, K., Hirai, T., Walz, T., Agre, P., Heymann, J. B., Engel, A., & Fujiyoshi, Y. (2000). Structural determinants of water permeation through aquaporin-1. Nature, 407(6804), 599–605.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Péra, M.-C., Hissel, D., Gualous, H., & Turpin, C. (2013). Electrochemical Components. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Leal Filho, W., Úbelis, A., & Bērziņa, D. (Eds.). (2015). Sustainable Development, Knowledge Society and Smart Future Manufacturing Technologies. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Rose, S., & van der Laan, M. J. (2011). Introduction to TMLE. In S. Rose (Ed.), Targeted Learning: Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Data (pp. 67–82). 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

Fang, J. (2014, April 22). Make Your Own Graphene With Just a Blender. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/make-your-own-graphene-just-blender/

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. (1993). Technology Transfer: Implementation of CRADAs at NIST, Army, and DOE (T-RCED-93-53). 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

Baumgarten, D. K. (2013). An Examination of the Relationship between Collegiate Student-Athlete’s Leadership Role in the Athletic Setting and Their Academic Success [Doctoral dissertation]. Northcentral University.

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

Brantley, B. (2016, December 9). Strangers Arrive, and the Desert Blooms. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kreeger, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Karsenty & Ferron, 2012; Kreeger, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Karsenty & Ferron, 2012)
Three authors: (Song et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Murata et al., 2000)

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)