How to format your references using the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior citation style

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

Sirocko, F. (2003). Paleoclimate. What drove past teleconnections? Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5638), 1336–1337.

A journal article with 2 authors

Collerson, K. D., & Weisler, M. I. (2007). Stone adze compositions and the extent of ancient Polynesian voyaging and trade. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5846), 1907–1911.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hammami, A., Raymond, N., & Armand, M. (2003). Lithium-ion batteries: runaway risk of forming toxic compounds. Nature, 424(6949), 635–636.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Schlag, J., Cai, R. H., Dorfman, A., Mohempour, A., & Schlag-Rey, M. (2000). Extrapolating movement without retinal motion. Nature, 403(6765), 38–39.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bolstad, W. M., & Curran, J. M. (2016). Introduction to Bayesian Statistics, Third Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Koops, B.-J., Oosterlaken, I., Romijn, H., Swierstra, T., & van den Hoven, J. (Eds.). (2015). Responsible Innovation 2: Concepts, Approaches, and Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Wuchterl, G. (2005). Planet Formation. In P. Ehrenfreund, W. Irvine, T. Owen, L. Becker, J. Blank, J. Brucato, et al. (Eds.), Astrobiology: Future Perspectives (pp. 67–96). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Nonverbal Behavior.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, June 20). Breakthrough In Fight Against Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/breakthrough-fight-against-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria/. 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). USDA Systems Modernization: Management and Oversight Improvements Are Needed (No. GAO-11-586). 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

Boylan, M. (2010). Acute physiological resonses to yoga activity in a hot environment (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

Kinsley, M. (2017, May 27). Paid Leave Counts as Progress. New York Times, p. SR3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sirocko 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Collerson and Weisler 2007; Sirocko 2003).

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

Two authors: (Collerson and Weisler 2007)
Three or more authors: (Schlag et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
Abbreviation	J. Nonverbal Behav.
ISSN (print)	0191-5886
ISSN (online)	1573-3653
Scope	Social Psychology