How to format your references using the Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science. 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

Brody, H. (2011). Multiple myeloma. Nature, 480(7377), S33.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kereszt, A., & Kondorosi, E. (2011). Plant science. Unlocking the door to invasion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6019), 865–866.

A journal article with 3 authors

Immerzeel, W. W., van Beek, L. P. H., & Bierkens, M. F. P. (2010). Climate change will affect the Asian water towers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5984), 1382–1385.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Yoshie, T., Scherer, A., Hendrickson, J., Khitrova, G., Gibbs, H. M., Rupper, G., Ell, C., Shchekin, O. B., & Deppe, D. G. (2004). Vacuum Rabi splitting with a single quantum dot in a photonic crystal nanocavity. Nature, 432(7014), 200–203.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chappell, D. (2014). The JCT Standard Building Contract 2011. John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Nagy, L., Forsberg, B. R., & Artaxo, P. (Eds.). (2016). Interactions Between Biosphere, Atmosphere and Human Land Use in the Amazon Basin (Vol. 227). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zadeh, A. H., & Sharda, R. (2015). Hawkes Point Processes for Social Media Analytics. In L. S. Iyer & D. J. Power (Eds.), Reshaping Society through Analytics, Collaboration, and Decision Support: Role of Business Intelligence and Social Media (pp. 51–66). Springer International Publishing.

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 Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, October 27). Regrowing Limbs: Fossils Reveal Ancient Secrets Of Salamander Ancestors. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/regrowing-limbs-fossils-reveal-ancient-secrets-salamander-ancestors/

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). Transportation Infrastructure: Estimated Funding Under the Transportation Empowerment Act (RCED-97-73R). 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

Desam, J. R. (2017). Effective Nodal Placement in Overlay Networks Using Complexity Theory [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

Kelly, K. (2017, January 20). From Wall Street to National Mall. 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 (Brody, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Brody, 2011; Kereszt & Kondorosi, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kereszt & Kondorosi, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Yoshie et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science
Abbreviation	Can. J. Behav. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0008-400X
ISSN (online)	1879-2669
Scope	General Psychology