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

Glassmeier, K.-H. (2009). Planetary science. Magnetic twisters on Mercury. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5927), 597–598.

A journal article with 2 authors

Curry Rogers, K., & Forster, C. A. (2001). The last of the dinosaur titans: a new sauropod from Madagascar. Nature, 412(6846), 530–534.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hastings, I. M., Bray, P. G., & Ward, S. A. (2002). Parasitology. A requiem for chloroquine. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5591), 74–75.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wozny, C., Kivi, A., Lehmann, T.-N., Dehnicke, C., Heinemann, U., & Behr, J. (2003). Comment on “On the origin of interictal activity in human temporal lobe epilepsy in vitro.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5632), 463; author reply 463.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kelsey, J. E., Newport, D. J., & Nemeroff, C. B. (2006). Principles of Psychopharmacology for Mental Health Professionals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kuhad, R. C., & Singh, A. (Eds.). (2013). Biotechnology for Environmental Management and Resource Recovery. Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Falmagne, J.-C., & Doble, C. (2015). Abstract Axioms and their Representations. In C. Doble (Ed.), On Meaningful Scientific Laws (pp. 47–57). 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

Carpineti, A. (2017, January 10). Charon Helps Pluto Keep Its Atmosphere. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2000). Mass Transit: Implementation of FTA’s New Starts Evaluation Process and FY 2001 Funding Proposals (RCED-00-149). 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

Stephens, B. S. (2017). Understanding CXC Chemokine Receptor 4 Activation by CXC Chemokine Ligand 12 [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego.

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

Herrman, J., & Maheshwari, S. (2016, November 8). How the Pro-Trump Media Covered Election Day. New York Times, P14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Glassmeier, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Curry Rogers & Forster, 2001; Glassmeier, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Curry Rogers & Forster, 2001)
Three authors: (Hastings et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Wozny et al., 2003)

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