How to format your references using the Animal Behaviour citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Animal Behaviour. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Schiermeier, Q. (2000). Austrian physics meeting passes without boycott. Nature, 406(6791), 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Machlis, G. E., & McNutt, M. K. (2010). Disasters. Scenario-building for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5995), 1018–1019.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kahn, S. E., Hull, R. L., & Utzschneider, K. M. (2006). Mechanisms linking obesity to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Nature, 444(7121), 840–846.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tzima, E., Irani-Tehrani, M., Kiosses, W. B., Dejana, E., Schultz, D. A., Engelhardt, B., Cao, G., DeLisser, H., & Schwartz, M. A. (2005). A mechanosensory complex that mediates the endothelial cell response to fluid shear stress. Nature, 437(7057), 426–431.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stocker, A. A. (2006). Analog VLSI Circuits for the Perception of Visual Motion. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Watson, L. W., & Woods, C. S. (Eds.). (2011). Go Where You Belong: Male Teachers as Cultural Workers in the Lives of Children, Families, and Communities (Vol. 67). SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Pradhan, B., & Pinninti, N. R. (2016). Yoga and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis (Y-MBCT p ©): A Pilot Study on Its Efficacy as Brief Therapy. In B. Pradhan, N. Pinninti, & S. Rathod (Eds.), Brief Interventions for Psychosis: A Clinical Compendium (pp. 55–87). Springer International Publishing.

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 Animal Behaviour.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. (2017, May 11). You Can Now Buy Tesla’s Solar Roof Tiles (If You’re Very Rich). IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/you-can-now-buy-teslas-solar-roof-tiles-if-youre-very-rich/

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. (1977). Deferral of Energy Research and Development Administration Budget Authority (OGC-77-23). 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

Guillory, M. K. (2017). An Analysis of Corporal Punishment Practices in the State of Tennessee [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Billard, M. (2010, August 19). If Your Boyfriend Is Metrosexual. New York Times, E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Machlis & McNutt, 2010; Schiermeier, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Machlis & McNutt, 2010)
Three authors: (Kahn et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Tzima et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Animal Behaviour
Abbreviation	Anim. Behav.
ISSN (print)	0003-3472
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics