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

Korner, C. (2003). Atmospheric science. Slow in, rapid out--carbon flux studies and Kyoto targets. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5623), 1242–1243.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hogan, B. M., & Black, B. L. (2015). Developmental biology: Diversity in the lymphatic vasculature. Nature, 522(7554), 37–38.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reichman, O. J., Jones, M. B., & Schildhauer, M. P. (2011). Challenges and opportunities of open data in ecology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6018), 703–705.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Aluwihare, A., Cohen-Tannoudji, C., Erzan, A., Jacob, F., Polanyi, J., van Dijk, P., Vesentini, E., & Wiesel, T. (2002). In support of scientific exchange. Nature, 417(6890), 690.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dimond, B. (2016). Legal Aspects of Mental Capacity. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Žegarac Leskovar, V. (2013). Energy-Efficient Timber-Glass Houses (M. Premrov, Ed.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hardes, J. (2012). How to Manage Osteolytic Lesions. In G. Bentley (Ed.), European Instructional Lectures: Volume 12, 2012, 13th EFORT Congress, Berlin, Germany (pp. 45–58). 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 Animal Behaviour.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 17). How A Small Backpack For Fast Genomic Sequencing Is Helping Combat Ebola. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-small-backpack-fast-genomic-sequencing-helping-combat-ebola/

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). Migrant Children: Education and HHS Need to Improve the Exchange of Participant Information (HEHS-00-4). 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

De La Cruz, C. F. (2009). A program evaluation of a literacy initiative for students with moderate to severe disabilities [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Wagner, J. (2017, September 20). For Matz, and Mets, Another Comeback Has Proved Difficult to Fulfill. New York Times, B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Korner, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Hogan & Black, 2015; Korner, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Hogan & Black, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Aluwihare et al., 2002)

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