How to format your references using the Behavioural Brain Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Behavioural Brain Research. 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

[1]

B.E. Smith, Structure. Nitrogenase reveals its inner secrets, Science 297 (2002) 1654–1655.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Sato, H. Clevers, Growing self-organizing mini-guts from a single intestinal stem cell: mechanism and applications, Science 340 (2013) 1190–1194.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N.J. Royle, I.R. Hartley, G.A. Parker, Sexual conflict reduces offspring fitness in zebra finches, Nature 416 (2002) 733–736.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G. Kresse, M. Schmid, E. Napetschnig, M. Shishkin, L. Köhler, P. Varga, Structure of the ultrathin aluminum oxide film on NiAl(110), Science 308 (2005) 1440–1442.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Sauter, From GSM to LTE, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

D.M. Guidot, A.J. Mehta, eds., Alcohol Use Disorders and the Lung: A Clinical and Pathophysiological Approach, Springer, New York, NY, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Hahn, Nicotinic Receptors and Attention, in: D.J.K. Balfour, M.R. Munafò (Eds.), The Neurobiology and Genetics of Nicotine and Tobacco, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 103–135.

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 Behavioural Brain Research.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, Juno Is About To Peer Under The Clouds Of Jupiter, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/juno-is-about-to-peer-under-the-clouds-of-jupiter/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Financial Education and Counseling Pilot Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

I. Ringler, Values satisfaction and participation in a community leadership program: A case study, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2008.

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

[1]

M.E. Williams, A Second Embrace, With Hearts and Eyes Open, New York Times (2014) ST6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Behavioural Brain Research
Abbreviation	Behav. Brain Res.
ISSN (print)	0166-4328
Scope	Behavioral Neuroscience