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 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

Begelman, M. (2009). Astronomy. A flare for acceleration– Science 325: 399–400.

A journal article with 2 authors

Silk, J. & Chluba, J. (2014). Astronomy. Next steps for cosmology– Science 344: 586–588.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jan, C.H., Williams, C.C., & Weissman, J.S. (2014). Principles of ER cotranslational translocation revealed by proximity-specific ribosome profiling– Science 346: 1257521.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Dong, M.-Q., Venable, J.D., Au, N., Xu, T., Park, S.K., Cociorva, D., Johnson, J.R., Dillin, A., & Yates, J.R., 3rd (2007). Quantitative mass spectrometry identifies insulin signaling targets in C. elegans– Science 317: 660–663.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Utsuro, M. & Ignatovich, V.K. (2010). Handbook of Neutron Optics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Bolotin, Y. (2009). Chaos: Concepts, Control and Constructive Use– (A. Tur & V. Yanovsky, Eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Tang, H. & Li, Z.-L. (2014). Land Surface Temperature Retrieval from Thermal Infrared Data– In: Quantitative Remote Sensing in Thermal Infrared: Theory and Applications (Li, Z.-L., ed). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p. 93–143.

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

Fang, J. (2016, June 30). Why Should Mammal Dads Care?– IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-care/.

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 (1993). Systemwide Education Reform: Federal Leadership Could Facilitate District-Level Efforts (No. HRD-93-97). 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

Paik, Y. (2012). Redefining multidisciplinary teams: An institutional approach (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Hay, G. (2011, November 25). Measuring Risks at Europe’s Banks– New York Times, p. B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Begelman, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Begelman, 2009; Silk & Chluba, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Silk & Chluba, 2014)
Three authors: (Jan, Williams, & Weissman, 2014)
4 or more authors: (Dong et al., 2007)

About the journal

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