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

Shlesinger, M.F., 2001. Physics in the noise. Nature 411, 641.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zeller, D., Booth, S., 2005. Costs and benefits of regulating mercury. Science 310, 777–9; author reply 777-9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gao, G., Guo, X., Goff, S.P., 2002. Inhibition of retroviral RNA production by ZAP, a CCCH-type zinc finger protein. Science 297, 1703–1706.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, J., Paesani, S., Ding, Y., Santagati, R., Skrzypczyk, P., Salavrakos, A., Tura, J., Augusiak, R., Mančinska, L., Bacco, D., Bonneau, D., Silverstone, J.W., Gong, Q., Acín, A., Rottwitt, K., Oxenløwe, L.K., O’Brien, J.L., Laing, A., Thompson, M.G., 2018. Multidimensional quantum entanglement with large-scale integrated optics. Science 360, 285–291.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mahlberg, R., Gilles, A., Läsch, A., 2004. Hämatologie. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Solari, A., 2009. Permutation Tests for Stochastic Ordering and ANOVA: Theory and Applications with R, 1st ed, Lecture Notes in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Chang, N., Terano, T., 2015. Mining Latent Attributes in Neighborhood for Recommender Systems, in: Mastorakis, N., Bulucea, A., Tsekouras, G. (Eds.), Computational Problems in Science and Engineering, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 129–140.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Smart Artificial Skin Could Give Prosthetic Limbs Feeling [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/smart-artificial-skin-could-give-prosthetic-limbs-feeling/ (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, 2000. Aviation and the Environment: Results From a Survey of the Nation’s 50 Busiest Commercial Service Airports (No. RCED-00-222). 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

Currano, L.J., 2010. Latching microelectromechanical shock sensor systems: Design, modeling, and experiments (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Otis, J., 2016. A Tutor Is Inspired to Keep Learning. New York Times A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shlesinger, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Shlesinger, 2001; Zeller and Booth, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Zeller and Booth, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Wang 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