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

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

Hoffert, M. (2011). Governments must pay for clean-energy innovation. Nature, 472(7342), 137.

A journal article with 2 authors

Parvatiyar, K., & Harhaj, E. W. (2010). Cell signaling. Anchors away for ubiquitin chains. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5983), 1244–1245.

A journal article with 3 authors

Riolo, R. L., Cohen, M. D., & Axelrod, R. (2001). Evolution of cooperation without reciprocity. Nature, 414(6862), 441–443.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., Strous, M., Rijpstra, W. I. C., Hopmans, E. C., Geenevasen, J. A. J., van Duin, A. C. T., et al. (2002). Linearly concatenated cyclobutane lipids form a dense bacterial membrane. Nature, 419(6908), 708–712.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

King, J. A., & Timacheff, S. (2008). Digital Photography for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Mohamad Zain, J., Wan Mohd, W. M. bt, & El-Qawasmeh, E. (Eds.). (2011). Software Engineering and Computer Systems: Second International Conference, ICSECS 2011, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia, June 27-29, 2011, Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 179). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Datta, P. K., & Biswas, S. (2011). Combination Resonance Characteristics of a Composite Plate Having Damage Subjected to in-Plane Pulsating Load. In J. Náprstek, J. Horáček, M. Okrouhlík, B. Marvalová, F. Verhulst, & J. T. Sawicki (Eds.), Vibration Problems ICOVP 2011: The 10th International Conference on Vibration Problems (pp. 45–50). 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 Journal of Behavioral Education.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2016, September 5). The US Army Is Working On A Real-Life Hoverbike. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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. (1990). Serious Shortcomings in FAA’s Training Program Must Be Remedied (No. T-RCED-90-91). 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

Sherman, C. P. (2001). The effect of head and heart on municipal employee retention (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Feeney, K. (2009, November 29). Their Daily Flatbread. New York Times, p. NJ12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoffert 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Hoffert 2011; Parvatiyar and Harhaj 2010).

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

Two authors: (Parvatiyar and Harhaj 2010)
Three or more authors: (Sinninghe Damsté et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Behavioral Education
Abbreviation	J. Behav. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1053-0819
ISSN (online)	1573-3513
Scope	Developmental and Educational Psychology Education