How to format your references using the Behaviour citation style

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

Lazic, S.E. (2013). Comment on “Stress in puberty unmasks latent neuropathological consequences of prenatal immune activation in mice”– Science 340: 811.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carr, J.S. & Najita, J.R. (2008). Organic molecules and water in the planet formation region of young circumstellar disks– Science 319: 1504–1506.

A journal article with 3 authors

Watanabe, K.N., Taeb, M., & Okusu, H. (2004). Biotechnology. Japanese controversies over transgenic crop regulation– Science 305: 1572.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Xiang, Z., Kasahara, Y., Asaba, T., Lawson, B., Tinsman, C., Chen, L., Sugimoto, K., Kawaguchi, S., Sato, Y., Li, G., Yao, S., Chen, Y.L., Iga, F., Singleton, J., Matsuda, Y., & Li, L. (2018). Quantum oscillations of electrical resistivity in an insulator– Science 362: 65–69.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pruitt, G. (2016). The Ultimate Algorithmic Trading System Toolbox + Website. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Scheerens, J., ed (2009). Informal Learning of Active Citizenship at School: An International Comparative Study in Seven European Countries. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, Vol. 14.

A chapter in an edited book

Naterer, G.F., Dincer, I., & Zamfirescu, C. (2013). Thermochemical Water-Splitting Cycles– In: Hydrogen Production from Nuclear Energy (Dincer, I. & Zamfirescu, C., eds). Springer, London, p. 153–272.

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 Behaviour.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013, November 29). New Species of Cat Discovered in South America– IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-cat-discovered-south-america/.

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 (1996). NASA Infrastructure: Challenges to Achieving Reductions and Efficiencies (No. NSIAD-96-187). Washington, DC: 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

Baugh, J.B. (2008). Deregulation and management strategies: A case study of Georgia System Operations Corporation (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Cooper, M. (2017, August 16). Watching Neo-Nazis in Virginia, From Germany– New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lazic, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Carr & Najita, 2008; Lazic, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Carr & Najita, 2008)
Three authors: (Watanabe, Taeb, & Okusu, 2004)
4 or more authors: (Xiang et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Behaviour
Abbreviation	Behaviour
ISSN (print)	0005-7959
ISSN (online)	1568-539X
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Behavioral Neuroscience