How to format your references using the Law and Human Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Law and Human 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

Willyard, C. (2010). Tiny steps towards an HIV vaccine. Nature, 466(7304), S8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Newman, D. K., & Kolter, R. (2000). A role for excreted quinones in extracellular electron transfer. Nature, 405(6782), 94–97.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gilchrist, A., Resch, K. J., & White, A. G. (2007). Quantum information: source of triggered entangled photon pairs? Nature, 445(7124), E4-5; discussion E5-6.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Quan, C., Liu, Y.-S. C., Tang, H., & Utescher, T. (2014). Miocene shift of European atmospheric circulation from trade wind to westerlies. Scientific Reports, 4, 5660.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Demaria, C. (2013). Introduction to Private Equity. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Saha, M. M. (2010). Fault Location on Power Networks (J. Izykowski & E. Rosolowski, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Krasińska, M., & Krasiński, Z. A. (2013). The Original Range of the Species Bison bonasus (L.). In Z. A. Krasiński (Ed.), European Bison: The Nature Monograph (pp. 41–43). 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 Law and Human Behavior.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, November 24). Finland Set To Ban All Coal Use By 2030. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/finland-ban-coal-2030/

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. (1979). Weaknesses in National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Facilities Utilization Program (PSAD-79-53). 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

Wolfe, C. J. (2012). Dimensions of Purchasing Social Responsibility in Sustainable Supply Chain Organizations [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

(nyt), S. K. (2005, September 6). World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: Former Aide Cites Corruption. New York Times, A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Willyard, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Newman & Kolter, 2000; Willyard, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Newman & Kolter, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Quan et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Law and Human Behavior
Abbreviation	Law Hum. Behav.
ISSN (print)	0147-7307
ISSN (online)	1573-661X
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Psychiatry and Mental health General Psychology Law