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 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

Baker M (2007) Fountain of funding for youth. Nature 448:384

A journal article with 2 authors

Park H, Crozier KB (2013) Multispectral imaging with vertical silicon nanowires. Sci Rep 3:2460

A journal article with 3 authors

Hansen B, Turrell WR, Østerhus S (2001) Decreasing overflow from the Nordic seas into the Atlantic Ocean through the Faroe Bank channel since 1950. Nature 411:927–930

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Horjus DL, Nieuwland R, Boateng KB, et al (2014) Creatine kinase inhibits ADP-induced platelet aggregation. Sci Rep 4:6551

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hübschmann H-J (2015) Handbook of GC-MS. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Sadler TD (ed) (2011) Socio-scientific Issues in the Classroom: Teaching, Learning and Research. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Fontani M, Orna MV, Costa M (2016) Chemists in the Period of the Institute for Higher Practical Studies and Specialization (1859–1924). In: Orna MV, Costa M (eds) Chemistry and Chemists in Florence: From the Last of the Medici Family to the European Magnetic Resonance Center. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 25–84

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

Davis J (2015) Scientists Uncover The Earliest Known Animal To Have Walked Upright On All Fours. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/earliest-known-animal-have-walked-upright-all-fours/. 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 (2004) Information Technology: OMB and Department of Homeland Security Investment Reviews. 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

Thompson MC (2008) Autonomy in occupational health nursing: An application of Abbott’s Theory of Professions. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University

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

Simon J (2016) French Lessons. New York Times BR22

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baker 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Baker 2007; Park and Crozier 2013).

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

Two authors: (Park and Crozier 2013)
Three or more authors: (Horjus et al. 2014)

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)