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

Alley, R. B. (2007). Geochemistry. “C”ing Arctic climate with black ice. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5843), 1333–1334.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chameides, W. L., & Bergin, M. (2002). Climate change. Soot takes center stage. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5590), 2214–2215.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mooney, H., Cropper, A., & Reid, W. (2005). Confronting the human dilemma. Nature, 434(7033), 561–562.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nettles, J. H., Li, H., Cornett, B., Krahn, J. M., Snyder, J. P., & Downing, K. H. (2004). The binding mode of epothilone A on alpha,beta-tubulin by electron crystallography. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5685), 866–869.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gordon, M. J., Jr. (2010). Total Quality Process Control for Injection Molding. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Reich, S. (2014). Genericity in Nonlinear Analysis. (A. J. Zaslavski, Ed.) (Vol. 34). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Travascio, F., & Gu, W. Y. (2009). Novel Video-FRAP Method for the Determination of Anisotropic Diffusion: Principles and Optimization. In A. J. McGoron, C.-Z. Li, & W.-C. Lin (Eds.), 25th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference 2009, 15 – 17 May 2009, Miami, Florida, USA (pp. 9–10). 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 Translational Behavioral Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 29). Hefty Hedgehog Freed from Railings After Becoming Trapped Overnight. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hefty-hedgehog-freed-railings-after-becoming-trapped-overnight/

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. (1978). Comments on Legislation To Establish a Department of Education (No. B-149737). 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

Blumenthal, P. M. (2014). Local Land Use Regulatory Regimes and Residential Development Outcomes: An Analysis of Subdivision Review in Four Counties in the DC Region (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

Meier, B. (2017, October 17). Branding Ritual Scarred Women in Secret Circle. New York Times, p. A1.

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