How to format your references using the The Analysis of Verbal Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Analysis of Verbal 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

Abbott, A. (2003). Chicken flu races through Dutch poultry farms. Nature, 422(6929), 247.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kouwenhoven, L. P., & Venema, L. C. (2000). Heat flow through nanobridges. Nature, 404(6781), 943–944.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lambert, J. B., Gurusamy-Thangavelu, S. A., & Ma, K. (2010). The silicate-mediated formose reaction: bottom-up synthesis of sugar silicates. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5968), 984–986.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yan, N., Wang, F., Zhong, H., Li, Y., Wang, Y., Hu, L., & Chen, Q. (2013). Hollow porous SiO2 nanocubes towards high-performance anodes for lithium-ion batteries. Scientific reports, 3, 1568.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Das, J. C. (2015). Power System Harmonics and Passive Filter Designs. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bishop, R. (Ed.). (2011). Freeing Ourselves (Vol. 66). Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Hustak, T., Krejcar, O., Selamat, A., Mashinchi, R., & Kuca, K. (2015). Principles of Usability in Human-Computer Interaction Driven by an Evaluation Framework of User Actions. In M. Younas, I. Awan, & M. Mecella (Eds.), Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems: 12th International Conference, MobiWis 2015, Rome, Italy, August 24-26, 2015, Proceedings (pp. 51–62). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 The Analysis of Verbal Behavior.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, May 16). Solar Activity Could Cause Lightning Storms On Earth. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/solar-activity-could-cause-lightning-storms-earth/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1981). Coordinating and Linking Programs Directed Toward Increasing the Numbers of Minority and Disadvantaged Individuals in the Health Professions (No. HRD-81-86). Washington, DC: 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

Jang, S. H. (2010). Interpretation of extended techniques in unaccompanied flute works by East-Asian composers: Isang Yun, Toru Takemitsu, and Kazuo Fukushima (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

McWHORTER, J. (2017, February 27). Patience Is a (Sexual) Virtue. New York Times, p. D10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott 2003; Kouwenhoven and Venema 2000).

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

Two authors: (Kouwenhoven and Venema 2000)
Three or more authors: (Yan et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Analysis of Verbal Behavior
Abbreviation	Anal. Verbal Behav.
ISSN (print)	0889-9401
ISSN (online)	2196-8926
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