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

Rampling J (2014): Tudor technology: Shakespeare and scienceNature 508:39–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ueshima R, Asami T (2003): Evolution: single-gene speciation by left-right reversalNature 425:679.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maffione M, Morris A, Anderson MW (2013): Recognizing detachment-mode seafloor spreading in the deep geological pastSci Rep 3:2336.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

He H, Liyanarachchi S, Akagi K, Nagy R, Li J, Dietrich RC, et al. (2011): Mutations in U4atac snRNA, a component of the minor spliceosome, in the developmental disorder MOPD IScience 332:238–240.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rowe WB (2010): Modern Grinding Techniques. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jiang X, Hornegger J, Koch R (eds.) (2014): Pattern Recognition: 36th German Conference, GCPR 2014, Münster, Germany, September 2-5, 2014, Proceedings. Cham, Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Meiss J-H, Schröder W (2008): Large-Eddy Simulation of a Generic Space Vehicle; in Gülhan A (ed): RESPACE – Key Technologies for Reusable Space Systems: Results of a Virtual Institute Programme of the German Helmholtz-Association, 2003 – 2007. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, pp 40–56.

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 Brain, Behavior and Evolution.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014): Exploding Stars Prove Gravity Constant Over The Last 9 Billion Years [Internet]IFLScience [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/exploding-stars-prove-gravity-constant-over-last-9-billion-years/

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): Mass Transit: FTA’s Projections Could Better Reflect State and Local Needs. 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

Ishutov S (2013): Tectonic characterization of the THUMS-Huntington Beach fault, offshore southern California

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

Crair B (2017): Books; Instagram EffectNew York Times :ST3.

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

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