How to format your references using the Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: an Open Access Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: an Open Access Journal. 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

Makalowski, W. (2003). Genomics. Not junk after all. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5623), 1246–1247.

A journal article with 2 authors

May, M., & Brody, H. (2015). Nature Index 2015 Global. Nature, 522(7556), S1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, C., Chan, C. T., & Hu, X. (2014). Broadband focusing and collimation of water waves by zero refractive index. Scientific Reports, 4, 6979.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Schnaufer, A., Panigrahi, A. K., Panicucci, B., Igo, R. P., Jr, Wirtz, E., Salavati, R., & Stuart, K. (2001). An RNA ligase essential for RNA editing and survival of the bloodstream form of Trypanosoma brucei. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5511), 2159–2162.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kelly, V. A. (2015). ADDICTION in the Family: What Every Counselor Needs to Know. American Counseling Association.

An edited book

Wittevrongel, S., & Phung-Duc, T. (Eds.). (2016). Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications: 23rd International Conference, ASMTA 2016, Cardiff, UK, August 24-26, 2016, Proceedings (Vol. 9845). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Hendler, T., Admon, R., & Papo, D. (2007). In the mind of the Beholder Neuronal mediators for the effect of emotional experience on~quality of life. In M. S. Ritsner & A. G. Awad (Eds.), Quality of Life Impairment in Schizophrenia, Mood and Anxiety Disorders: New Perspectives on Research and Treatment (pp. 57–66). 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 Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: an Open Access Journal.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2017, February 14). A Possible Alternative To Morphine – Inspired By Spit. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/a-possible-alternative-to-morphine-inspired-by-spit/

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. (1980). The Law Enforcement Education Program Is in Serious Financial Disarray (FGMSD-80-46). 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

Rosales, J. K. (2009). California’s three strikes law: A policy analysis [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

Greenhouse, L. (2005, December 8). Student Debt Collectible by Social Security. New York Times, A28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Makalowski, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Makalowski, 2003; May & Brody, 2015).

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

Two authors: (May & Brody, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Schnaufer et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: an Open Access Journal
Abbreviation	Health Psychol. Behav. Med.
ISSN (online)	2164-2850
Scope