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

Betts, R. A. (2000). Offset of the potential carbon sink from boreal forestation by decreases in surface albedo. Nature, 408(6809), 187–190.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson, B. C., & Melosh, H. J. (2012). Impact spherules as a record of an ancient heavy bombardment of Earth. Nature, 485(7396), 75–77.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, Z.-Z., Zhang, F.-C., & Wang, Q.-H. (2014). Majorana modes in a topological insulator/s-wave superconductor heterostructure. Scientific reports, 4, 6363.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Matsuo, T., Gambe, Y., Sun, Y., & Honma, I. (2014). Bipolar stacked quasi-all-solid-state lithium secondary batteries with output cell potentials of over 6 V. Scientific reports, 4, 6084.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bennett, M. K. (1995). Affine and Projective Geometry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jøsang, A., Samarati, P., & Petrocchi, M. (Eds.). (2013). Security and Trust Management: 8th International Workshop, STM 2012, Pisa, Italy, September 13-14, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 7783). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lazzini, S., Anselmi, L., Schiavo, L. L., & Falanga, A. M. (2014). The Role of Information Systems to Support Performance Management in Public Administration: The Case of the Italian Regulatory Authority for the Energy Sector. In D. Baglieri, C. Metallo, C. Rossignoli, & M. Pezzillo Iacono (Eds.), Information Systems, Management, Organization and Control: Smart Practices and Effects (pp. 47–64). 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 Behavior Analyst.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, December 29). 5 Unsolved Mysteries of Space. 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. (2003). Information Technology: Executive office for U.S. Attorneys Needs to Institutionalize Key IT Management Disciplines (No. GAO-03-751). 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

McCafferty, B. (2009). Chalk Talk (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Feeney, K. (2008, October 5). Fresh Fare, Ready to Eat. New York Times, p. NJ12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Betts 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Betts 2000; Johnson and Melosh 2012).

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

Two authors: (Johnson and Melosh 2012)
Three or more authors: (Matsuo 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