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

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

Kitano, H., 2002. Computational systems biology. Nature 420, 206–210.

A journal article with 2 authors

Toyoshima, C., Mizutani, T., 2004. Crystal structure of the calcium pump with a bound ATP analogue. Nature 430, 529–535.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bishop, J.K.B., Davis, R.E., Sherman, J.T., 2002. Robotic observations of dust storm enhancement of carbon biomass in the North Pacific. Science 298, 817–821.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chowell, D., Morris, L.G.T., Grigg, C.M., Weber, J.K., Samstein, R.M., Makarov, V., Kuo, F., Kendall, S.M., Requena, D., Riaz, N., Greenbaum, B., Carroll, J., Garon, E., Hyman, D.M., Zehir, A., Solit, D., Berger, M., Zhou, R., Rizvi, N.A., Chan, T.A., 2018. Patient HLA class I genotype influences cancer response to checkpoint blockade immunotherapy. Science 359, 582–587.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thiessen, H., 1996. Measuring the Real World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., West Sussex, England.

An edited book

Rosenberg, D., 2005. Agile Development with ICONIX Process: People, Process, and Pragmatism. A-Press, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Assadi, F., Sharbaf, F.G., 2016. CRRT Prescription, in: Ghane Sharbaf, F. (Ed.), Pediatric Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy: Principles and Practice. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 71–97.

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 Immunity.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2015. Why Do Capuchin Monkeys Cover Themselves In Smelly Substances? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-do-capuchin-monkeys-anoint-themselves/ (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, 1988. Immigration Service: INS’ Technology Selection Process Is Weak, Informal, and Inconsistently Applied (No. PEMD-88-16). 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

Jo, S.M., 2009. A study of Korean students’ creativity in science using structural equation modeling (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Lee, L., 1995. The Whole Earth Is at Stake, but It’s Just a Game. New York Times 223.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kitano, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Kitano, 2002; Toyoshima and Mizutani, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Toyoshima and Mizutani, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Chowell et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Brain Behavior and Immunity
Abbreviation	Brain Behav. Immun.
ISSN (print)	0889-1591
Scope	Immunology Behavioral Neuroscience Endocrine and Autonomic Systems