How to format your references using the Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking (CYBER). 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

Jacobson MZ. Strong radiative heating due to the mixing state of black carbon in atmospheric aerosols. Nature 2001;409(6821):695–697.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rose C, Wright G. Inscribed matter as an energy-efficient means of communication with an extraterrestrial civilization. Nature 2004;431(7004):47–49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vukusic P, Hallam B, Noyes J. Brilliant whiteness in ultrathin beetle scales. Science 2007;315(5810):348.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wood JG, Rogina B, Lavu S, et al. Sirtuin activators mimic caloric restriction and delay ageing in metazoans. Nature 2004;430(7000):686–689.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kovalev VA. Solutions in Lidar Profiling of the Atmosphere. John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ; 2015.

An edited book

Kayem AVDM. Adaptive Cryptographic Access Control. (Akl SG, Martin P. eds). Advances in Information Security. Springer US: Boston, MA; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Anderson JB, Beekman RH, Martin GR, et al. Quality Improvement in Pediatric Cardiology: The National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative. In: Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care: Volume 2: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. (Barach PR, Jacobs JP, Lipshultz SE, et al. eds) Springer: London; 2015; pp. 51–67.

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 Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.

Blog post

Andrews R. Poaching Of Elephants Costs African Economies $25 Million Per Year. IFLScience; 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/poaching-of-elephants-costs-african-economies-25-million-per-year/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Vulnerabilities in the Stafford Student Loan Program. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Janice J. Preschoolers’ Prosocial Responding to Social Others’ Distress. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana: Lafayette, LA; 2017.

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

Barron J. Where Presidential Aspirations Are Finally Laid to Rest. New York Times 2016;C17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
ISSN (print)	2152-2715
ISSN (online)	2152-2723
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