How to format your references using the Behavioural Processes citation style

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

Patel, A.D., 2008. Science & music: talk of the tone. Nature 453, 726–727.

A journal article with 2 authors

Soundararajan, V., Aravamudan, M., 2014. Global connectivity of hub residues in Oncoprotein structures encodes genetic factors dictating personalized drug response to targeted Cancer therapy. Sci. Rep. 4, 7294.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arnarez, C., Marrink, S.J., Periole, X., 2013. Identification of cardiolipin binding sites on cytochrome c oxidase at the entrance of proton channels. Sci. Rep. 3, 1263.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Falkowski, P.G., Katz, M.E., Knoll, A.H., Quigg, A., Raven, J.A., Schofield, O., Taylor, F.J.R., 2004. The evolution of modern eukaryotic phytoplankton. Science 305, 354–360.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McCall, M.W., 2010. Classical Mechanics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Zitouni, I. (Ed.), 2014. Natural Language Processing of Semitic Languages, Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kotani, J.-I., 2015. Angioscopy Catheter Equipped with a Balloon for Blood Flow Attenuation, in: Mizuno, K., Takano, M. (Eds.), Coronary Angioscopy. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 49–56.

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 Processes.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Scientists Find Stone Tools That Predate Humanity [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-find-worlds-oldest-stone-tools/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2007. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: Progress Has Been Made, but Improvements Are Needed to Effectively Manage Risks (No. GAO-08-18). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Scaramella, J., 2013. Physical activity and red light foods consumed in ASPIRE-VA veterans (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Marx, L., 2014. A Meeting That Couples Often Find Daunting. New York Times ST21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Patel, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Patel, 2008; Soundararajan and Aravamudan, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Soundararajan and Aravamudan, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Falkowski et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Behavioural Processes
Abbreviation	Behav. Processes
ISSN (print)	0376-6357
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology General Medicine Behavioral Neuroscience