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

Peckham, M. (2009). Journal club. A cell biologist ponders an outstanding mystery in muscle formation. Nature, 458(7242), 1081.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, L., & Sigworth, F. J. (2009). Structure of the BK potassium channel in a lipid membrane from electron cryomicroscopy. Nature, 461(7261), 292–295.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cherry, J. L., Adler, F. R., & Johnson, K. P. (2002). Islands, equilibria, and speciation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5570), 975.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Oganov, A. R., Chen, J., Gatti, C., Ma, Y., Ma, Y., Glass, C. W., Liu, Z., Yu, T., Kurakevych, O. O., & Solozhenko, V. L. (2009). Ionic high-pressure form of elemental boron. Nature, 457(7231), 863–867.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Casandjian, C., Challamel, N., Lanos, C., & Hellesland, J. (2013). Reinforced Concrete Beams, Columns and Frames. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Huang, Y. A. (2006). Acoustic MIMO Signal Processing (J. Chen & J. Benesty, Eds.). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Akondi, K. B., & Lakshmi, V. V. (2014). Challenges and Prospects in Exploring Marine Microbial Diversity. In M. H. Fulekar, B. Pathak, & R. K. Kale (Eds.), Environment and Sustainable Development (pp. 47–58). Springer India.

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

Andrew, E. (2015, February 4). You Can Sell Your Poop For $13k Per Year And Help Science. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sell-your-poop-13k-year-and-help-worthy-cause/

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. (1996). Transportation Enhancements: Status of the $2.4 Billion Authorized for Nonmotorized Transportation (RCED-96-156). 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

Dinneny, P. N. (2017). End of August [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Somaiya, R. (2015, December 15). Reporters in Las Vegas Try to Crack Case of Who Really Owns Their Newspaper. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Peckham, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Peckham, 2009; Wang & Sigworth, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Wang & Sigworth, 2009)
Three authors: (Cherry et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Oganov et al., 2009)

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