How to format your references using the The Behavior Analyst citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Behavior Analyst. 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

Garman, E. F. (2014). Developments in x-ray crystallographic structure determination of biological macromolecules. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6175), 1102–1108.

A journal article with 2 authors

Green, C. B., & Menaker, M. (2003). Circadian rhythms. Clocks on the brain. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5631), 319–320.

A journal article with 3 authors

Millonig, J. H., Millen, K. J., & Hatten, M. E. (2000). The mouse Dreher gene Lmx1a controls formation of the roof plate in the vertebrate CNS. Nature, 403(6771), 764–769.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tsuruta, H., Oura, Y., Ebihara, M., Ohara, T., & Nakajima, T. (2014). First retrieval of hourly atmospheric radionuclides just after the Fukushima accident by analyzing filter-tapes of operational air pollution monitoring stations. Scientific reports, 4, 6717.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Santamarina, J. C., & Fratta, D. (2006). Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Anderson, L. J., & Graham, B. S. (Eds.). (2013). Challenges and Opportunities for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccines (Vol. 372). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Arumugam, M., Wang, L., & Kulkarni, S. S. (2006). A Case Study on Prototyping Power Management Protocols for Sensor Networks. In A. K. Datta & M. Gradinariu (Eds.), Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems: 8th International Symposium, SSS 2006, Dallas, TX, USA, November 17-19, 2006. Proceedings (pp. 50–64). 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 Behavior Analyst.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, August 26). 3D Printed Robot Takes Hoverbike Out For A Spin. 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. (1992). Government Civil Aircraft: Longstanding Management Problems (No. T-GGD-92-44). 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

Hughes, L. L. (2010). The principalship: Preparation programs and the self-efficacy of principals (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, February 13). Beefier Syndergaard Envisions a Fastball With Even More Heft. New York Times, p. D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Garman 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Garman 2014; Green and Menaker 2003).

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

Two authors: (Green and Menaker 2003)
Three or more authors: (Tsuruta et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Behavior Analyst
Abbreviation	Behav. Anal.
ISSN (print)	0738-6729
ISSN (online)	2196-8918
Scope	Clinical Psychology Social Psychology