How to format your references using the Behavior Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Behavior Therapy. 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	Download the output style file
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

Bonesteel, N. (2000). Composite fermions pair up. Nature, 406(6798), 840–841.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gibson, M. C., & Perrimon, N. (2005). Extrusion and death of DPP/BMP-compromised epithelial cells in the developing Drosophila wing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5716), 1785–1789.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tseng, C.-H., Gobell, J. L., & Sperling, G. (2004). Long-lasting sensitization to a given colour after visual search. Nature, 428(6983), 657–660.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Garcia-Castellanos, D., Estrada, F., Jiménez-Munt, I., Gorini, C., Fernàndez, M., Vergés, J., & De Vicente, R. (2009). Catastrophic flood of the Mediterranean after the Messinian salinity crisis. Nature, 462(7274), 778–781.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lee, K. B. (2011). Principles of Microelectromechanical Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Egger, R., Matrasulov, D., & Rakhimov, K. (Eds.). (2013). Low-Dimensional Functional Materials. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Periakaruppan, R., & Nadarajan, R. (2015). Automatic Clustering of Research Articles Using Domain Ontology and Fuzzy Logic. In D. K. W. Chiu, M. Wang, E. Popescu, Q. Li, R. Lau, T. K. Shih, C.-S. Yang, & D. G. Sampson (Eds.), Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2013 Workshops: USL 2013, IWSLL 2013, KMEL 2013, IWCWL 2013, WIL 2013, and IWEEC 2013, Kenting, Taiwan, October 6-9, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 42–51). 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 Behavior Therapy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 24). Southern Stars: The Decade Ahead For Australian Astronomy. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/southern-stars-decade-ahead-australian-astronomy/

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. (1972). Multiple Protests Against Contract Award (B-175585). 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

Hobbs, E. (2017). Rehearing Florence Price: A Closer Look at Her Symphony in E Minor [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Koblin, J., & Peters, J. W. (2016, September 2). Diverse Group of Rookie Moderators Is Chosen for the Presidential Debates. New York Times, A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bonesteel, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bonesteel, 2000; Gibson & Perrimon, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Gibson & Perrimon, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Garcia-Castellanos et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Behavior Therapy
Abbreviation	Behav. Ther.
ISSN (print)	0005-7894
Scope	Clinical Psychology