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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brain Imaging and Behavior. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Mayo, M. J. (2009). Video games: a route to large-scale STEM education? Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5910), 79–82.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sun, J. C., & Bevan, M. J. (2003). Defective CD8 T cell memory following acute infection without CD4 T cell help. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5617), 339–342.

A journal article with 3 authors

Venkatesan, M., Fitzgerald, C. B., & Coey, J. M. D. (2004). Thin films: unexpected magnetism in a dielectric oxide. Nature, 430(7000), 630.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jewell, J., McCollum, D., Emmerling, J., Bertram, C., Gernaat, D. E. H. J., Krey, V., et al. (2018). Limited emission reductions from fuel subsidy removal except in energy-exporting regions. Nature, 554(7691), 229–233.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

“MAX” Maxfield, C., & Brown, A. (2005). The Definitive Guide to How Computers Do Math. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Meyer, B., Nawrocki, J. R., & Walter, B. (Eds.). (2008). Balancing Agility and Formalism in Software Engineering: Second IFIP TC 2 Central and East European Conference on Software Engineering Techniques, CEE-SET 2007, Poznan, Poland, October 10-12, 2007, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 5082). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Olson, J., Champagne, P., Roth, E., Evtimov, B., Clappier, R., Nast, T., et al. (2006). Lockheed Martin 6K/18K Cryocooler. In R. G. Ross (Ed.), Cryocoolers 13 (pp. 25–30). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Imaging and Behavior.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016, July 11). Why Cold Viruses Don’t Like It Warm. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-cold-viruses-dont-like-it-warm/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2003). DOD Business Systems Modernization: Longstanding Management and Oversight Weaknesses Continue to Put Investments at Risk (No. GAO-03-553T). 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

Dimick, E. (2015). A Comparative Study on Pheromone Communication between Schizophyllum species (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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., & Steel, E. (2017, July 19). As Content Makers Rise, Malone Eyes Consolidation. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mayo 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Mayo 2009; Sun and Bevan 2003).

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

Two authors: (Sun and Bevan 2003)
Three or more authors: (Jewell et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Brain Imaging and Behavior
Abbreviation	Brain Imaging Behav.
ISSN (print)	1931-7557
ISSN (online)	1931-7565
Scope	Clinical Neurology Psychiatry and Mental health Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Behavioral Neuroscience Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Neurology