How to format your references using the Brain, Behavior and Evolution citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brain, Behavior and Evolution (BBE). 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

Giles J (2001): Think like a beeNature 410:510–512.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bridson R, Batty C (2010): Computer science. Computational physics in filmScience 330:1756–1757.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ryu WS, Berry RM, Berg HC (2000): Torque-generating units of the flagellar motor of Escherichia coli have a high duty ratioNature 403:444–447.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ashworth J, Havranek JJ, Duarte CM, Sussman D, Monnat RJ Jr, Stoddard BL, et al. (2006): Computational redesign of endonuclease DNA binding and cleavage specificityNature 441:656–659.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruppel W (2015): Wiley GAAP for Governments 2015. Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lee YP (2016): Metamaterials for Perfect Absorption. Singapore, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Asatiani R (2013): The Information Structure and Typological Peculiarities of the Georgian Passive Constructions; in Bezhanishvili G, Löbner S, Marra V, Richter F (eds): Logic, Language, and Computation: 9th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation, TbiLLC 2011, Kutaisi, Georgia, September 26-30, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, pp 17–34.

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 Brain, Behavior and Evolution.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2016): Say Hello To Your Four Newly Named Elements Of The Periodic Table [Internet]IFLScience [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/say-hello-to-four-newly-named-elements-periodic-table/

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 (1996): Reports and Testimony: December 1995. 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

Durak D (2016): Improving forecasting accuracy of electric switch demand using artificial neural network and aggregate customer clustering techniques

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

Landler M, Gordon MR (2017): President Cedes Afghan Strategy To the PentagonNew York Times :A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Brain, Behavior and Evolution
Abbreviation	Brain Behav. Evol.
ISSN (print)	0006-8977
ISSN (online)	1421-9743
Scope	Behavioral Neuroscience Developmental Neuroscience