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

Watling, L. (2013). Deep-sea trawling must be banned. Nature, 501(7465), 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Engel, H.-A., & Loss, D. (2005). Fermionic bell-state analyzer for spin qubits. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5734), 586–588.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schröter, C., Kosma, K., & Schultz, T. (2011). CRASY: mass- or electron-correlated rotational alignment spectroscopy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6045), 1011–1015.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Amonlirdviman, K., Khare, N. A., Tree, D. R. P., Chen, W.-S., Axelrod, J. D., & Tomlin, C. J. (2005). Mathematical modeling of planar cell polarity to understand domineering nonautonomy. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5708), 423–426.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goldstein, L. S. B., & Schneider, M. (2010). Stem Cells for Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Zeng, Z., & Wang, J. (Eds.). (2010). Advances in Neural Network Research and Applications (Vol. 67). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Diemert, B., Abel, M.-H., & Moulin, C. (2010). Ontology Representations for Information Exchange between Communities. In M.-A. Sicilia, C. Kop, & F. Sartori (Eds.), Ontology, Conceptualization and Epistemology for Information Systems, Software Engineering and Service Science: 4th International Workshop, ONTOSE 2010, held at CAiSE 2010, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 7-8, 2010, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 47–62). 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. (2014, November 24). Watch A Python Swallow A Whole Deer. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-huge-python-swallow-whole-deer/

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. (2005). Activities of the Amtrak Inspector General (GAO-05-306R). 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

Watts, K. S. (2008). The Effectiveness of a Social Story Intervention in Decreasing Disruptive Behavior in Autistic Children [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State 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

Gustines, G. G. (2011, October 13). Along the Heated Trail of the Man Who Created Muslim Superheroes. New York Times, C8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Watling, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Engel & Loss, 2005; Watling, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Engel & Loss, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Amonlirdviman et al., 2005)

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