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

Stewart M (2003) Structural biology. Nuclear trafficking. Science 302:1513–1514

A journal article with 2 authors

Torquato S, Jiao Y (2009) Dense packings of the Platonic and Archimedean solids. Nature 460:876–879

A journal article with 3 authors

Wake DB, Wake MH, Specht CD (2011) Homoplasy: from detecting pattern to determining process and mechanism of evolution. Science 331:1032–1035

A journal article with 5 or more authors

You L-R, Lin F-J, Lee CT, et al (2005) Suppression of Notch signalling by the COUP-TFII transcription factor regulates vein identity. Nature 435:98–104

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adams F, Aizawa K (2010) The Bounds of Cognition. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Heiss WD (ed) (2005) Quantum Dots: a Doorway to Nanoscale Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Wiśniewski T, Korytkowski P (2011) Identification of an Assessment Model for Evaluating Performance of a Manufacturing System Based on Experts Opinions. In: Katarzyniak R, Chiu T-F, Hong C-F, Nguyen NT (eds) Semantic Methods for Knowledge Management and Communication. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 35–45

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 (2013) Mutations In mtDNA May Not Be as Rare or Random as Previously Believed. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mutations-mtdna-may-not-be-rare-or-random-previously-believed/. 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 (2009) Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2009 Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. 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

Martin RL (2017) Development of a Nutrition Program with Emphasis on Use of Social Media for Middle School Students. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Pilon M (2014) Race-Fixing Let Musician Reach Sochi, Ski Group Says. New York Times D7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stewart 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Stewart 2003; Torquato and Jiao 2009).

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

Two authors: (Torquato and Jiao 2009)
Three or more authors: (You 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)