How to format your references using the Behavior Genetics citation style

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

Burns JA (2010) The four hundred years of planetary science since Galileo and Kepler. Nature 466:575–584

A journal article with 2 authors

Ionescu AM, Riel H (2011) Tunnel field-effect transistors as energy-efficient electronic switches. Nature 479:329–337

A journal article with 3 authors

Bhalla US, Ram PT, Iyengar R (2002) MAP kinase phosphatase as a locus of flexibility in a mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling network. Science 297:1018–1023

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bricelj VM, Connell L, Konoki K, et al (2005) Sodium channel mutation leading to saxitoxin resistance in clams increases risk of PSP. Nature 434:763–767

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bouvier J-M, Campanella OH (2014) Extrusion Processing Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Camina A (2011) An Introduction to Enumeration. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

McLean JM, Athwal GS, Daneshvar P (2016) Reconstruction Techniques for Fractures of the Proximal Ulna and Radial Head. In: Antuña S, Barco R (eds) Essential Techniques in Elbow Surgery. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 59–86

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 Behavior Genetics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Vaccinating Against Measles Could Also Protect You From Other Infectious Diseases. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/vaccinating-against-measles-also-protects-you-other-infectious-diseases/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1993) Athletic Department Profiles. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Rozas KN (2014) Searching for Reel Consequences: A Content Analysis of Risk Behaviors, Gender and Character Consequences in PG-13 Movie Trailers. 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

Crow K (2001) An Enigmatic Golden Trophy Evokes a Saloon’s Good Times. New York Times 147

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Burns 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Burns 2010; Ionescu and Riel 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ionescu and Riel 2011)
Three or more authors: (Bricelj et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Behavior Genetics
Abbreviation	Behav. Genet.
ISSN (print)	0001-8244
ISSN (online)	1573-3297
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Genetics Genetics(clinical)