How to format your references using the Law and Human Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Law and Human Behavior. 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

Rietbrock, A. (2007). Geophysics. Listening to the crackle of subducting oceanic plates. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5830), 1439–1440.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shirane, M., & Nakayama, K. I. (2006). Protrudin induces neurite formation by directional membrane trafficking. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5800), 818–821.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sreekanth, K. V., De Luca, A., & Strangi, G. (2013). Experimental demonstration of surface and bulk plasmon polaritons in hypergratings. Scientific Reports, 3, 3291.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Wang, M., Bao, W.-J., Wang, J., Wang, K., Xu, J.-J., Chen, H.-Y., & Xia, X.-H. (2014). A green approach to the synthesis of novel “Desert rose stone”-like nanobiocatalytic system with excellent enzyme activity and stability. Scientific Reports, 4, 6606.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rider, M. J. (2015). Design and Analysis of Mechanisms. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Saint-Jeannet, J.-P. (Ed.). (2006). Neural Crest Induction and Differentiation (Vol. 589). Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Jargalsaikhan, L. (2013). Long-Term Study of the Relationship Between Precipitation and Productivity in the Main Pasture Vegetation of a Steppe Ecosystem in Eastern Mongolia. In N. Yamamura, N. Fujita, & A. Maekawa (Eds.), The Mongolian Ecosystem Network: Environmental Issues Under Climate and Social Changes (pp. 33–42). Springer Japan.

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 Law and Human Behavior.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, September 18). King Richard III Suffered Nine Blows to the Skull. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/king-richard-iii-suffered-nine-blows-skull/

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. (2013). Transportation Infrastructure: Limited Improvement in Bridge Conditions over the Past Decade, but Financial Challenges Remain (GAO-13-713T). 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

Kim, S. (2004). Characterization of Ribosomal S6 Protein Phosphorylation and Posssible Control of Ribosome Biogenesis in Arabidopsis Cell Culture [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State University.

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

Ruiz, R. R., Ivory, D., & Stout, H. (2014, May 27). 13 Deaths, Untold Heartache, From G.M. Defect. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rietbrock, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Rietbrock, 2007; Shirane & Nakayama, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Shirane & Nakayama, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Law and Human Behavior
Abbreviation	Law Hum. Behav.
ISSN (print)	0147-7307
ISSN (online)	1573-661X
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Psychiatry and Mental health General Psychology Law