How to format your references using the Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment citation style

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

Marx, V. (2014). When disease strikes from nowhere. Nature, 513(7518), 445–448.

A journal article with 2 authors

Furukawa, A., & Tanaka, H. (2006). Violation of the incompressibility of liquid by simple shear flow. Nature, 443(7110), 434–438.

A journal article with 3 authors

Viculis, L. M., Mack, J. J., & Kaner, R. B. (2003). A chemical route to carbon nanoscrolls. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5611), 1361.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Helenius, J., Brouhard, G., Kalaidzidis, Y., Diez, S., & Howard, J. (2006). The depolymerizing kinesin MCAK uses lattice diffusion to rapidly target microtubule ends. Nature, 441(7089), 115–119.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davis, T. G. (2010). Java® and Mac OS® X. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Pippan, R., & Gumbsch, P. (Eds.). (2010). Multiscale Modelling of Plasticity and Fracture by Means of Dislocation Mechanics (Vol. 522). Vienna: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ziegler, A. (2014). Ultrafast Transmission Electron Microscopy and Electron Diffraction. In A. Ziegler, H. Graafsma, X. F. Zhang, & J. W. M. Frenken (Eds.), In-situ Materials Characterization: Across Spatial and Temporal Scales (pp. 111–145). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, September 29). Spiral Around New Star Hints At A New Planet Formation Mechanism. 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. (1999). Highway Safety: Effectiveness of State .08 Blood Alcohol Laws (No. RCED-99-179). 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

Maranhao, B. (2015). Efficient identification of disease causative mutations with next generation sequencing technologies (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

Eligon, J., & Cacciola, S. (2016, September 12). Player’s Protest Revives a Spirit of Activism From the Days of Ali. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marx 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Furukawa and Tanaka 2006; Marx 2014).

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

Two authors: (Furukawa and Tanaka 2006)
Three or more authors: (Helenius et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
Abbreviation	J. Psychopathol. Behav. Assess.
ISSN (print)	0882-2689
ISSN (online)	1573-3505
Scope	Clinical Psychology