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

Hoag, H. (2004). Testing new ground– Nature 429: 682–683.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gratzer, W. & Nathan, D.G. (2005). Obituary: Fred S. Rosen (1930-2005)– Nature 435: 1044.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lepper, C., Conway, S.J., & Fan, C.-M. (2009). Adult satellite cells and embryonic muscle progenitors have distinct genetic requirements– Nature 460: 627–631.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Vasileiadis, T., Dracopoulos, V., Kollia, M., & Yannopoulos, S.N. (2013). Laser-assisted growth of t-Te nanotubes and their controlled photo-induced unzipping to ultrathin core-Te/sheath-TeO(2) nanowires– Sci. Rep. 3: 1209.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boussabaine, A. (2013). Risk Pricing Strategies for Public-Private Partnerships Projects. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford.

An edited book

Schwerzmann, M., Thomet, C., & Moons, P., eds (2016). Congenital Heart Disease and Adolescence. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Görbil, G. & Gelenbe, E. (2010). Design of a Mobile Agent-Based Adaptive Communication Middleware for Federations of Critical Infrastructure Simulations– In: Critical Information Infrastructures Security: 4th International Workshop, CRITIS 2009, Bonn, Germany, September 30 - October 2, 2009. Revised Papers (Rome, E. & Bloomfield, R., eds). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p. 34–49.

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

Luntz, S. (2014, September 26). The Water On Earth Predates The Formation Of The Sun– IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/solar-systems-water-predates-sun/.

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 (2014). Older Americans: Inability to Repay Student Loans May Affect Financial Security of a Small Percentage of Retirees (No. GAO-14-866T). 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

Eldridge, R.L. (2012). A Comparative Quantitative Study of Private College Audit Fee Behavior in a Highly Regulated Environment (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Hodgman, J. (2016, September 16). Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman– New York Times, p. MM38.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Hoag, 2004; Gratzer & Nathan, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Gratzer & Nathan, 2005)
Three authors: (Lepper, Conway, & Fan, 2009)
4 or more authors: (Vasileiadis et al., 2013)

About the journal

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