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

Reenan, R. A. (2005). Molecular determinants and guided evolution of species-specific RNA editing. Nature, 434(7031), 409–413.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lease, R. O., & Ehlers, T. A. (2013). Incision into the eastern Andean Plateau during Pliocene cooling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6147), 774–776.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tobie, G., Lunine, J. I., & Sotin, C. (2006). Episodic outgassing as the origin of atmospheric methane on Titan. Nature, 440(7080), 61–64.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mees, A., Klar, T., Gnau, P., Hennecke, U., Eker, A. P. M., Carell, T., & Essen, L.-O. (2004). Crystal structure of a photolyase bound to a CPD-like DNA lesion after in situ repair. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5702), 1789–1793.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quinn, J. F. (2013). Dementia. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Leibenath, M. (2008). Cross-border Governance and Sustainable Spatial Development: Mind the Gaps! (E. Korcelli-Olejniczak & R. Knippschild, Eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ortolani, S., Giuffrida, C., & Crispo, B. (2011). KLIMAX: Profiling Memory Write Patterns to Detect Keystroke-Harvesting Malware. In R. Sommer, D. Balzarotti, & G. Maier (Eds.), Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection: 14th International Symposium, RAID 2011, Menlo Park, CA, USA, September 20-21, 2011. Proceedings (pp. 81–100). 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. (2015, June 1). Hurricane Forecast Accuracy Is Improving, But Don’t Overly Focus On The Skinny Black Line. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/hurricane-forecast-accuracy-improving-don-t-overly-focus-skinny-black-line/. 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. (2009). School Meal Programs: Changes to Federal Agencies’ Procedures Could Reduce Risk of School Children Consuming Recalled Food (No. GAO-09-649). 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

Rajendran, N. (2010). Assessment of upper extremity strength, power, and flexibility characteristics of college-aged male and female students (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Pilon, M. (2012, April 22). Finding Economic Lessons In Fading Era of Card Shows. New York Times, p. SP8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reenan 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Lease and Ehlers 2013; Reenan 2005).

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

Two authors: (Lease and Ehlers 2013)
Three or more authors: (Mees et al. 2004)

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