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

Ivell, R. (2002). Endocrinology. This hormone has been relaxin’ too long! Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5555), 637–638.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chopra, H. D., & Wuttig, M. (2015). Non-Joulian magnetostriction. Nature, 521(7552), 340–343.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bressan, M., Liu, G., & Mikawa, T. (2013). Early mesodermal cues assign avian cardiac pacemaker fate potential in a tertiary heart field. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6133), 744–748.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhang, C., Koepke, J., Kirchner, C., Götze, N., & Behrens, H. (2014). Rapid hydrothermal cooling above the axial melt lens at fast-spreading mid-ocean ridge. Scientific reports, 4, 6342.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lu, K. (2014). Materials in Energy Conversion, Harvesting, and Storage. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Allhoff, F., & Lin, P. (Eds.). (2009). Nanotechnology & Society: Current and Emerging Ethical Issues. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Dvorkin, E. N., & Toscano, R. G. (2013). Collapse and Post-Collapse Behavior of Deepwater Pipelines with Buckle Arrestors: Cross-Over Mechanisms. In R. G. Toscano (Ed.), Finite Element Analysis of the Collapse and Post-Collapse Behavior of Steel Pipes: Applications to the Oil Industry (pp. 71–86). 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

Andrew, E. (2014, October 16). Man Claims Tropical Spider Burrowed Under His Skin Via Appendix Scar. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1989). Motor Vehicle Safety: Selected Rulemakings by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (No. RCED-89-11FS). 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

Pelletier, J. M. (2017). Effects of Data Breaches on Sector-Wide Systematic Risk in Financial, Technology, Healthcare and Services Sectors (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Gelles, D., & de la MERCED, M. J. (2017, October 25). Torch Passes At Carlyle As a Titan Steps Aside. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ivell 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Chopra and Wuttig 2015; Ivell 2002).

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

Two authors: (Chopra and Wuttig 2015)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

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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