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

Horton, J.C. (2000). Boundary disputes– Nature 406: 565.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sothmann, B. & Flindt, C. (2013). Physics. Quantized electronic heat flow– Science 342: 569–570.

A journal article with 3 authors

Larson, K.M., Bodin, P., & Gomberg, J. (2003). Using 1-Hz GPS data to measure deformations caused by the Denali fault earthquake– Science 300: 1421–1424.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Lee, J.Y., Lee, K.-T., Seo, S., & Guo, L.J. (2014). Decorative power generating panels creating angle insensitive transmissive colors– Sci. Rep. 4: 4192.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dowrick, D.J. (2005). Earthquake Risk Reduction. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Nguyen, D. (2007). Flow Cytometry in Hematopathology: A Visual Approach to Data Analysis and Interpretation– (L. W. Diamond & R. C. Braylan, Eds.). Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, Second Edition.

A chapter in an edited book

Niazi, M.A. & Hussain, A. (2013). Modeling CAS– In: Cognitive Agent-based Computing-I: A Unified Framework for Modeling Complex Adaptive Systems using Agent-based & Complex Network-based Methods (Hussain, A., ed). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, p. 33–53.

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

Carpineti, A. (2016, June 28). Millions Of Black Holes Might Be Hiding In The Milky Way– IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/millions-of-black-holes-might-be-hiding-in-the-milky-way/.

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 (1998). Information Technology: Assessment of the Department of Commerce’s Report on Workforce Demand and Supply (No. HEHS-98-106). 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

Eaddy, M. (2008). An empirical assessment of the crosscutting concern problem (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Grynbaum, M.M. (2017, September 12). Fox News May Add Ingraham and Move Up Hannity– New York Times, p. B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Horton, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Horton, 2000; Sothmann & Flindt, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sothmann & Flindt, 2013)
Three authors: (Larson, Bodin, & Gomberg, 2003)
4 or more authors: (Lee et al., 2014)

About the journal

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