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 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

Tate, C. G. (2010). Biochemistry. Membrane protein gymnastics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5986), 1644–1645.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rossky, P. J., & Walker, G. C. (2010). Retrospective. Paul F. Barbara (1953-2010). Science (New York, N.Y.), 330(6008), 1191.

A journal article with 3 authors

Basole, A., White, L. E., & Fitzpatrick, D. (2003). Mapping multiple features in the population response of visual cortex. Nature, 423(6943), 986–990.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Atabaki, A. H., Moazeni, S., Pavanello, F., Gevorgyan, H., Notaros, J., Alloatti, L., Wade, M. T., Sun, C., Kruger, S. A., Meng, H., Qubaisi, K. A., Wang, I., Zhang, B., Khilo, A., Baiocco, C. V., Popović, M. A., Stojanović, V. M., & Ram, R. J. (2018). Publisher Correction: Integrating photonics with silicon nanoelectronics for the next generation of systems on a chip. Nature, 560(7716), E4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Šolín, P. (2005). Partial Differential Equations and the Finite Element Method. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lamm, J. (2010). Under Control: Governance Across the Enterprise (S. Blount, S. Boston, M. Camm, R. Cirabisi, N. E. Cooper, G. Datskovsky, C. Fox, K. V. Handal, W. E. McCracken, J. Meyer, H. Scheil, A. Srulowitz, & R. Zanella, Eds.). Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Chia, S. (2010). Transfer of services to emerging markets – mobile services, m-payment & m-health. In A. Picot & J. Lorenz (Eds.), ICT for the Next Five Billion People: Information and Communication for Sustainable Development (pp. 25–33). 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

Luntz, S. (2016, December 20). Snake In A Christmas Tree Confirms World’s Suspicions About Australia. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/snake-in-a-christmas-tree-confirms-worlds-suspicions-about-australia/

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. (1985). Status of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Modernization Program (NSIAD-85-78). 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

Mihalas, S. T. (2008). Positive protective factors as moderators in the relationship between relational victimization and depression in minority adolescents [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

Hernández, J. C. (2013, October 14). From His Father’s Decline, de Blasio ‘Learned What Not to Do.’ 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 (Tate, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Rossky & Walker, 2010; Tate, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Rossky & Walker, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Atabaki et al., 2018)

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