How to format your references using the The Behavior Analyst citation style

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

Ide, S. (2010). Striations, duration, migration and tidal response in deep tremor. Nature, 466(7304), 356–359.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ahn, S., & Lee, S. J. (2014). Nanoparticle role on the repeatability of stimuli-responsive nanocomposites. Scientific reports, 4, 6624.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barber, V. A., Juday, G. P., & Finney, B. P. (2000). Reduced growth of Alaskan white spruce in the twentieth century from temperature-induced drought stress. Nature, 405(6787), 668–673.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Boehmerle, W., Huehnchen, P., Peruzzaro, S., Balkaya, M., & Endres, M. (2014). Electrophysiological, behavioral and histological characterization of paclitaxel, cisplatin, vincristine and bortezomib-induced neuropathy in C57Bl/6 mice. Scientific reports, 4, 6370.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hiltscher, G., Mühlthaler, W., & Smits, J. (2003). Industrial Pigging Technology. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Kole, C. (Ed.). (2011). Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Industrial Crops. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Aziz, S. W., & Aziz, M. H. (2013). Major Signaling Pathways Involved in Breast Cancer. In A. Ahmad (Ed.), Breast Cancer Metastasis and Drug Resistance: Progress and Prospects (pp. 47–64). New York, NY: 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 The Behavior Analyst.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, May 23). Study Suggests Atheists Are More Intelligent Because They Can Override Religious Instinct. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/study-suggests-atheists-are-more-intelligent-because-they-can-override-religious-instinct-/. 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. (2006). Suggested Areas for Oversight for the 110th Congress (No. GAO-07-235R). 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

Kelly, L. A. (2009). Nursing surveillance in the acute care setting: Latent variable development and analysis (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, 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

Sisario, B. (2017, April 3). You’re a Bot? Rock On. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ide 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Ahn and Lee 2014; Ide 2010).

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

Two authors: (Ahn and Lee 2014)
Three or more authors: (Boehmerle et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Behavior Analyst
Abbreviation	Behav. Anal.
ISSN (print)	0738-6729
ISSN (online)	2196-8918
Scope	Clinical Psychology Social Psychology