How to format your references using the Eating Behaviors citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Eating Behaviors. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Smaglik, P. (2003). A demanding world. Nature, 424(6944), 109.
A journal article with 2 authors
Mohnen, D., & Tierney, M. L. (2011). Plant science. Plants get Hyp to O-glycosylation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332(6036), 1393–1394.
A journal article with 3 authors
Feldon, D. F., Maher, M. A., & Timmerman, B. E. (2010). Graduate education. Performance-based data in the study of STEM Ph.D. education. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5989), 282–283.
A journal article with 21 or more authors
Matthey, D., Wang, J. G., Wendt, S., Matthiesen, J., Schaub, R., Laegsgaard, E., Hammer, B., & Besenbacher, F. (2007). Enhanced bonding of gold nanoparticles on oxidized TiO2(110). Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5819), 1692–1696.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Baker, K. R. (2011). Optimization Modeling with Spreadsheets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Renals, S., & Bengio, S. (Eds.). (2006). Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction: Second International Workshop, MLMI 2005, Edinburgh, UK, July 11-13, 2005, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 3869). Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Khosla, A., Yao, B., & Fei-Fei, L. (2014). Integrating Randomization and Discrimination for Classifying Human-Object Interaction Activities. In Y. Fu (Ed.), Human-Centered Social Media Analytics (pp. 95–114). 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 Eating Behaviors.

Blog post
Fang, J. (2015, June 4). Researchers Grow Rat Forelimb in the Lab. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-built-rat-forelimb-tissue-lab/

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. (1999). Travel System Requirements (JFMIP-SR-99-9). 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
Niedringhaus, B. (2012). Best Practice in Early Reading Intervention: Implementing a Reading Intervention Program to Reach Below Level Readers [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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
Harris, E. A., & Moynihan, C. (2014, October 1). Brooklyn Teacher Is Accused of Abusing Girls for 3 Years. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Mohnen & Tierney, 2011; Smaglik, 2003).

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

  • Two authors: (Mohnen & Tierney, 2011)
  • Three or more authors: (Matthey et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal titleEating Behaviors
AbbreviationEat. Behav.
ISSN (print)1471-0153
ScopePsychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology

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