How to format your references using the Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Falke, J. J. (2002). Enzymology. A moving story. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5559), 1480–1481.

A journal article with 2 authors

Semmelhack, J. L., & Wang, J. W. (2009). Select Drosophila glomeruli mediate innate olfactory attraction and aversion. Nature, 459(7244), 218–223.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mohn, F., Handler, D., & Brennecke, J. (2015). Noncoding RNA. piRNA-guided slicing specifies transcripts for Zucchini-dependent, phased piRNA biogenesis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6236), 812–817.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gu, L., Black, B., Ordonez, S., Mondal, A., Jain, A., & Mohanty, S. (2014). Microfluidic control of axonal guidance. Scientific reports, 4, 6457.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Todeschini, R., & Baccini, A. (2016). Handbook of Bibliometric Indicators. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Westerheijden, D. F., Stensaker, B., & Rosa, M. J. (Eds.). (2007). Quality Assurance In Higher Education: Trends in Regulation, Translation and Transformation (Vol. 20). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Beckett, I. F. W. (2016). Royalty and the Army in the Twentieth Century. In M. Glencross, J. Rowbotham, & M. D. Kandiah (Eds.), The Windsor Dynasty 1910 to the Present: “Long to Reign Over Us”? (pp. 109–133). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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 Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 23). There’s No Such Thing As Reptiles Any More – And Here’s Why. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/there-s-no-such-thing-reptiles-any-more-and-here-s-why/. 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. (1978). How Good Are School Lunches? (No. CED-78-22). 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

Nelson, J.-M. C. (2008). The effect of class size on a teacher’s job satisfaction in a southeastern urban LEA (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Slivka, K. (2012, August 21). Close to Shore, Humpbacks Are Far From Safe. New York Times, p. D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Falke 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Falke 2002; Semmelhack and Wang 2009).

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

Two authors: (Semmelhack and Wang 2009)
Three or more authors: (Gu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education
ISSN (online)	2365-502X
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