How to format your references using the Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression. 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

Sherman, W. (2009). Materials science. Building a better nano-biped. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5923), 46–47.

A journal article with 2 authors

Löytynoja, A., & Goldman, N. (2009). Evolution. Uniting alignments and trees. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5934), 1528–1529.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, R., Mason, A., & members of the NTA Network. (2014). Is low fertility really a problem? Population aging, dependency, and consumption. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6206), 229–234.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Eiler, J. M., Schiano, P., Kitchen, N., & Stolper, E. M. (2000). Oxygen-isotope evidence for recycled crust in the sources of mid-ocean-ridge basalts. Nature, 403(6769), 530–534.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sericola, B. (2013). Markov Chains. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Panayiotopoulos, T., Gratch, J., Aylett, R., Ballin, D., Olivier, P., & Rist, T. (Eds.). (2005). Intelligent Virtual Agents: 5th International Working Conference, IVA 2005, Kos, Greece, September 12-14, 2005. Proceedings (Vol. 3661). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Selouani, S.-A. (2010). “Well Adjusted”: Using Robust and Flexible Speech Recognition Capabilities in Clean to Noisy Mobile Environments. In A. Neustein (Ed.), Advances in Speech Recognition: Mobile Environments, Call Centers and Clinics (pp. 91–112). 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 Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, July 22). Pesky Beetle Destroys Coffee Crops Thanks to Caffeine-Detoxing Gut Microbes. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pesky-beetle-destroys-coffee-crops-thanks-caffeine-detoxing-gut-microbes/

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. (1997). Federal Communications Commission: Provision for the Use of the 220-222 MHz Band by Private Land Mobile Radio Service and Final Rule (OGC-97-35). 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

Finnegan, R. J. (2010). Information food webs: A quantitative inquiry using a biological food web methodology [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella University.

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

Ember, S., & de la MERCED, M. J. (2017, May 9). Sinclair Will Pay $3.9 Billion For Tribune. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sherman, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Löytynoja & Goldman, 2009; Sherman, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Löytynoja & Goldman, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Eiler et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression
ISSN (print)	1943-4472
ISSN (online)	1943-4480
Scope	Social Psychology Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations