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

Malescio, G. (2005). Predicting with unpredictability. Nature, 434(7037), 1073.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jacak, B. V., & Müller, B. (2012). The exploration of hot nuclear matter. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6092), 310–314.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dixon, E., Shapiro, A., & Lu, Z.-L. (2014). Scale-invariance in brightness illusions implicates object-level visual processing. Scientific reports, 4, 3900.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Collins, F. S., Green, E. D., Guttmacher, A. E., Guyer, M. S., & US National Human Genome Research Institute. (2003). A vision for the future of genomics research. Nature, 422(6934), 835–847.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maguire, L., & Smith, E. (2012). 30 Great Myths about Shakespeare. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Mauskopf, S., & Schmaltz, T. (Eds.). (2012). Integrating History and Philosophy of Science: Problems and Prospects (Vol. 263). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Andrade-Cetto, J., & Sanfeliu, A. (2006). Simultaneous Localization, Control and Mapping. In A. Sanfeliu (Ed.), Environment Learning for Indoor Mobile Robots: A Stochastic State Estimation Approach to Simultaneous Localization and Map Building (pp. 107–118). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Nonverbal Behavior.

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). Parent and Supplemental Student Loans: Volume and Default Trends for Fiscal Years 1989 to 1991 (No. HRD-92-138FS). 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

Pelayo, A. Y. (2017). A program to increase health literacy for older Latino adults residing in La Habra, California: A grant proposal (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

Kishkovsky, S. (2004, July 1). Dmitri Dudko, 82, Foe of Stalin Who Recanted and Praised Him. New York Times, p. C14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Malescio 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Jacak and Müller 2012; Malescio 2005).

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

Two authors: (Jacak and Müller 2012)
Three or more authors: (Collins et al. 2003)

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