How to format your references using the Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes citation style

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

Church, J. A. (2001). Climate change. How fast are sea levels rising? Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5543), 802–803.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, F., & Zhou, Z. (2004). Palaeontology: leg feathers in an Early Cretaceous bird. Nature, 431(7011), 925.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shim, S. H., Duffy, T. S., & Shen, G. (2001). The post-spinel transformation in Mg2SiO4 and its relation to the 660-km seismic discontinuity. Nature, 411(6837), 571–574.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Borzi, R. A., Grigera, S. A., Farrell, J., Perry, R. S., Lister, S. J. S., Lee, S. L., Tennant, D. A., Maeno, Y., & Mackenzie, A. P. (2007). Formation of a nematic fluid at high fields in Sr3Ru2O7. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5809), 214–217.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gerardi, M. H. (2010). Troubleshooting the Sequencing Batch Reactor. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pradalier, C., Siegwart, R., & Hirzinger, G. (Eds.). (2011). Robotics Research: The 14th International Symposium ISRR (Vol. 70). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Restivo, S. (2007). Theory of Mind, Social Science, and Mathematical Practice. In B. van Kerkhove & J. P. van Bendegem (Eds.), Perspectives On Mathematical Practices: Bringing Together Philosophy of Mathematics, Sociology of Mathematics, and Mathematics Education (pp. 61–79). 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 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 11). Would You Lie Tilted Backwards For 60 Days For Science? IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1974). Activities of the National Institute of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (B-164031(1)). 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

Evans, M. D. (2014). A Correlational Analysis of Teacher Observation Scores and Student Achievement [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Vecsey, G. (2010, October 31). Petke Departs, Certain He Gave All That He Could. New York Times, SP9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Church, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Church, 2001; Zhang & Zhou, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Zhang & Zhou, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Borzi et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Abbreviation	Organ. Behav. Hum. Decis. Process.
ISSN (print)	0749-5978
Scope	Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Applied Psychology