How to format your references using the Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 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	Download the output style file
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

Eberl, G. (2014). Immunology: A is for immunity. Nature, 508(7494), 47–48.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weinhold, F., & Landis, C. R. (2007). Chemistry. High bond orders in metal-metal bonding. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5821), 61–63.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ben-Yehuda, S., Rudner, D. Z., & Losick, R. (2003). RacA, a bacterial protein that anchors chromosomes to the cell poles. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5606), 532–536.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pangala, S. R., Enrich-Prast, A., Basso, L. S., Peixoto, R. B., Bastviken, D., Hornibrook, E. R. C., Gatti, L. V., Marotta, H., Calazans, L. S. B., Sakuragui, C. M., Bastos, W. R., Malm, O., Gloor, E., Miller, J. B., & Gauci, V. (2018). Erratum: Large emissions from floodplain trees close the Amazon methane budget. Nature, 553(7688), 366.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dean, J. R. (2005). Practical Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy: Dean/Plasma. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rendell, A. P., Chapman, B. M., & Müller, M. S. (Eds.). (2013). OpenMP in the Era of Low Power Devices and Accelerators: 9th International Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2013, Canberra, ACT, Australia, September 16-18, 2013. Proceedings (Vol. 8122). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dypvik, H., Smelror, M., Mørk, A., Werner, S. C., & Torsvik, T. H. (2011). Impact Cratering and Post-impact Sedimentation. In F. Tsikalas, H. Dypvik, & M. Smelror (Eds.), The Mjølnir Impact Event and its Consequences: Geology and Geophysics of a Late Jurassic/Early Cretaceous Marine Impact Event (pp. 139–174). 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 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, June 17). Why Do Humans Have An Innate Desire To Get High? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/why-do-humans-have-an-innate-desire-to-get-high/

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. (2002). VA Information Technology: Management Making Important Progress in Addressing Key Challenges (GAO-02-1054T). 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

Wiedeman, L. D. (2012). Acceptance promoting and hindering interactions in integrative behavioral couple therapy [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Gordon, M. R. (2017, July 2). ISIS Holdouts in Raqqa Nearly Hemmed In by American-Backed Forces. New York Times, A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eberl, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Eberl, 2014; Weinhold & Landis, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Weinhold & Landis, 2007)
Three authors: (Ben-Yehuda et al., 2003)
6 or more authors: (Pangala et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Abbreviation	Organ. Behav. Hum. Decis. Process.
ISSN (print)	0749-5978
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Applied Psychology