How to format your references using the Translational Behavioral Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Translational Behavioral Medicine. 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

Högbom, M. (2014). Nitrogenase Mechanism. A dynamic tool for nitrogen reduction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6204), 1568.

A journal article with 2 authors

Junge, W., & Müller, D. J. (2011). Biochemistry. Seeing a molecular motor at work. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6043), 704–705.

A journal article with 3 authors

Van Gaal, L. F., Mertens, I. L., & De Block, C. E. (2006). Mechanisms linking obesity with cardiovascular disease. Nature, 444(7121), 875–880.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Trivedi, D. K., Bhatt, H., Pal, R. K., Tuteja, R., Garg, B., Johri, A. K., … Tuteja, N. (2013). Structure of RNA-interacting cyclophilin A-like protein from Piriformospora indica that provides salinity-stress tolerance in plants. Scientific reports, 3, 3001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Koch, S. N., Torres, S. M. F., & Plumb, D. C. (2012). Canine and Feline Dermatology Drug Handbook. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.

An edited book

Auvray, G., Bocquet, J.-C., Bonjour, E., & Krob, D. (Eds.). (2016). Complex Systems Design & Management: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Complex Systems Design & Management, CSD&M 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Barford, P., Chen, Y., Goyal, A., Li, Z., Paxson, V., & Yegneswaran, V. (2010). Employing Honeynets For Network Situational Awareness. In S. Jajodia, P. Liu, V. Swarup, & C. Wang (Eds.), Cyber Situational Awareness: Issues and Research (pp. 71–102). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Translational Behavioral Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, October 21). Google Used To Ask These Interview Questions, But They’re So Tricky They Were Banned. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (2017). Pipeline Safety: Additional Actions Could Improve Federal Use of Data on Pipeline Materials and Corrosion (No. GAO-17-639). 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

Alsari, F. (2015). Training needs analysis for women in educational leadership in Saudi Arabia (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Sisario, B. (2016, September 20). Who Needs Streaming? Aldean Album Is No. 1. New York Times, p. C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Translational Behavioral Medicine
Abbreviation	Transl. Behav. Med.
ISSN (print)	1869-6716
ISSN (online)	1613-9860
Scope	Behavioral Neuroscience Applied Psychology