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 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

Charo, R.A., 2015. SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT. Yellow lights for emerging technologies. Science 349, 384–385.

A journal article with 2 authors

Azam, F., Worden, A.Z., 2004. Oceanography. Microbes, molecules, and marine ecosystems. Science 303, 1622–1624.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jan, C.H., Williams, C.C., Weissman, J.S., 2014. Principles of ER cotranslational translocation revealed by proximity-specific ribosome profiling. Science 346, 1257521.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ding, X., Zhao, L., Chu, H., Tong, N., Ni, C., Hu, Z., Zhang, Z., Wang, M., 2014. Assessing the effectiveness of problem-based learning of preventive medicine education in China. Sci. Rep. 4, 5126.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rigby, K.A., 2013. Aircraft Systems Integration of Air-Launched Weapons. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Ramer, K., 2005. Nuclear Medicine Technology: Review Questions for the Board Examinations, Second Edition. ed. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Balaji, V., Bhatia, M.B., Kumar, R., Neelam, L.K., Panja, S., Prabhakar, T.V., Samaddar, R., Soogareddy, B., Sylvester, A.G., Yadav, V., 2010. Agrotags – A Tagging Scheme for Agricultural Digital Objects, in: Sánchez-Alonso, S., Athanasiadis, I.N. (Eds.), Metadata and Semantic Research: 4th International Conference, MTSR 2010, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, October 20-22, 2010. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 36–45.

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

Hamilton, K., 2014. Watch A Neurosurgeon Perform A Subdural Hematoma Operation [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1977. Office of Education’s Basic Grant Program Can Be Improved (No. HRD-77-91). 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

Meaux, B., 2015. Effect of Formation Deformation on Casing Standoff in Highly Deviated and Horizontal Wells (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

de la MERCED, M.J., 2017. Looking to Bulk Up Sprint, SoftBank Is Casting an Eye on Charter. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Charo, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Azam and Worden, 2004; Charo, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Azam and Worden, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Ding et al., 2014)

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