How to format your references using the Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. 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

Clapham, David E. 2003. “TRP Channels as Cellular Sensors.” Nature 426 (6966): 517–524.

A journal article with 2 authors

Attisano, Liliana, and Jeffrey L. Wrana. 2002. “Signal Transduction by the TGF-Beta Superfamily.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 296 (5573): 1646–1647.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cook, Douglas J., Lucy Teves, and Michael Tymianski. 2012. “Treatment of Stroke with a PSD-95 Inhibitor in the Gyrencephalic Primate Brain.” Nature 483 (7388): 213–217.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Katsuda, Takeshi, Reiko Tsuchiya, Nobuyoshi Kosaka, Yusuke Yoshioka, Kentaro Takagaki, Katsuyuki Oki, Fumitaka Takeshita, Yasuyuki Sakai, Masahiko Kuroda, and Takahiro Ochiya. 2013. “Human Adipose Tissue-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Secrete Functional Neprilysin-Bound Exosomes.” Scientific Reports 3 (February 2013): 1197.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Canham, Judith, and Joanne Bennett. 2008. Mentorship in Community Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd.

An edited book

Parnham, Michael J., Kevin Coward, and Mark D. Baker, eds. 2005. Sodium Channels, Pain, and Analgesia. Progress in Inflammation Research. Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Jacques, Steven L. 2011. “Monte Carlo Modeling of Light Transport in Tissue (Steady State and Time of Flight).” In Optical-Thermal Response of Laser-Irradiated Tissue, edited by Ashley J. Welch and Martin J. C. van Gemert, 109–144. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2016. “New Extremely Red Quasar Population Is Something Never Seen Before.” IFLScience, IFLScience, November 16. https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-extremely-red-quasar-population-is-something-never-seen-before/.

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. 2001. School Vouchers: Publicly Funded Programs in Cleveland and Milwaukee. GAO-01-914. Washington, DC: 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

Hoefer, Peter D. 2010. “A David against Goliath: The American Veterans Committee’s Challenge to the American Legion in the 1950s.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park.

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, David A. 2006. “Calling From Abroad at Reasonable Rates.” New York Times, January 1, 2006.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clapham 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Clapham 2003; Attisano and Wrana 2002).

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

Two authors: (Attisano and Wrana 2002)
Three authors: (Cook, Teves, and Tymianski 2012)
4 or more authors: (Katsuda et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
Abbreviation	Emot. Behav. Diffic.
ISSN (print)	1363-2752
ISSN (online)	1741-2692
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Developmental and Educational Psychology