How to format your references using the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine citation style

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

1. Scheid JF. HIV-specific B cell response in patients with broadly neutralizing serum activity. Science. 2015;350:1175.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Suit HD, Willers H. Comment on “Tumor response to radiotherapy regulated by endothelial cell apoptosis” (I). Science. 2003;302:1894; author reply 1894.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hempson GP, Archibald S, Bond WJ. A continent-wide assessment of the form and intensity of large mammal herbivory in Africa. Science. 2015;350:1056–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Mehl-Madrona L, Katz M, Curry EP, Bribiesca LB. Alternative views on alternative medicine. Science. 2000;289:245b–6b.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Scanlan EA. Fundraising Consultants. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. Barry C, Lang M, Wojtkowski W, Conboy K, Wojtkowski G, editors. Information Systems Development: Challenges in Practice, Theory, and Education Volume 2. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Goldengorin B, Pardalos PM. Data Correcting Approach for the Simple Plant Location Problem. In: Pardalos PM, editor. Data Correcting Approaches in Combinatorial Optimization. New York, NY: Springer; 2012. p. 79–106.

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 International Journal of Behavioral Medicine.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Koalas Listed As Vulnerable Throughout Queensland [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/koalas-listed-vulnerable-throughout-queensland/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Small Business Innovation Research: SBA Should Work with Agencies to Improve the Data Available for Program Evaluation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 Aug. Report No.: GAO-11-698.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Domec BS. Development, Characterization, and Resultant Properties of a Carbon, Boron, and Chromium Ternary Diffusion System [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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

1. Feeney K. Cafeteria Fare, Korean-Style. New York Times. 2010 Apr 18;NJ8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Abbreviation	Int. J. Behav. Med.
ISSN (print)	1070-5503
ISSN (online)	1532-7558
Scope	Applied Psychology