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

Flückiger, J. (2008). Climate change. Did you say “fast”? Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5889), 650–651.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anfinrud, P., & Schotte, F. (2005). Chemistry. X-ray fingerprinting of chemical intermediates in solution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5738), 1192–1193.

A journal article with 3 authors

Appelbaum, I., Huang, B., & Monsma, D. J. (2007). Electronic measurement and control of spin transport in silicon. Nature, 447(7142), 295–298.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chipuk, J. E., Bouchier-Hayes, L., Kuwana, T., Newmeyer, D. D., & Green, D. R. (2005). PUMA couples the nuclear and cytoplasmic proapoptotic function of p53. Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5741), 1732–1735.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaschke, M., Donnerhacke, K.-H., & Rill, M. S. (2014). Optical Devices in Ophthalmology and Optometry. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Hanslmeier, A., Kempe, S., & Seckbach, J. (Eds.). (2012). Life on Earth and other Planetary Bodies (Vol. 24). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Jiang, Q., & Wen, Z. (2011). Phase Diagrams. In Z. Wen (Ed.), Thermodynamics of Materials (pp. 119–156). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 The Analysis of Verbal Behavior.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, November 25). “Siberian Snow Theory” Is Predicting A Freezing Winter For The US. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/siberian-snow-theory-is-predicting-a-freezing-winter-for-the-us/. 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. (2002). Telecommunications: History and Current Issues Related to Radio Spectrum Management (No. GAO-02-814T). 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

Ahmed, S. (2013). Human fatigue in prolonged mentally demanding work-tasks: An observational study in the field (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Vecsey, G. (2011, January 3). Feeling Low, But Standing Together. New York Times, p. D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Flückiger 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Anfinrud and Schotte 2005; Flückiger 2008).

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

Two authors: (Anfinrud and Schotte 2005)
Three or more authors: (Chipuk et al. 2005)

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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