How to format your references using the Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment citation style

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

Newman, D. K. (2010). Microbiology. Feasting on minerals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5967), 793–794.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gehring, W. J., & Willoughby, A. R. (2002). The medial frontal cortex and the rapid processing of monetary gains and losses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5563), 2279–2282.

A journal article with 3 authors

Laubach, M., Wessberg, J., & Nicolelis, M. A. (2000). Cortical ensemble activity increasingly predicts behaviour outcomes during learning of a motor task. Nature, 405(6786), 567–571.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ertekin-Taner, N., Graff-Radford, N., Younkin, L. H., Eckman, C., Baker, M., Adamson, J., et al. (2000). Linkage of plasma Abeta42 to a quantitative locus on chromosome 10 in late-onset Alzheimer’s disease pedigrees. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5500), 2303–2304.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson, D. (2007). TKO Management! Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Balula, A. (2014). Evaluation of Online Higher Education: Learning, Interaction and Technology. (A. Moreira, Ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Yue, X., & Miao, D. (2009). Rough Geometry and Its Applications in Character Recognition. In J. F. Peters, A. Skowron, M. Wolski, M. K. Chakraborty, & W.-Z. Wu (Eds.), Transactions on Rough Sets X (pp. 136–156). 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 Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, May 4). NASA Pretended Neptune Was An Exoplanet To Improve Our Chances Of Finding Life. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1989). Equal Employment Opportunity: Actions Needed for FAA to Implement Committee Recommendations in the Airline Industry (No. HRD-89-100). 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

Newsom, S. M. (2012). Love and Creativity: A Shared Dynamic (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Bray, C. (2017, July 4). Payments Firm In Britain Draws 2 Bids For Takeover. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Newman 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Gehring and Willoughby 2002; Newman 2010).

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

Two authors: (Gehring and Willoughby 2002)
Three or more authors: (Ertekin-Taner et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
Abbreviation	J. Psychopathol. Behav. Assess.
ISSN (print)	0882-2689
ISSN (online)	1573-3505
Scope	Clinical Psychology