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

Nottebohm, F. (2014). Peter Marler (1928-2014). Nature, 512(7515), 372.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kepecs, A., & Fishell, G. (2014). Interneuron cell types are fit to function. Nature, 505(7483), 318–326.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richmond, J. E., Weimer, R. M., & Jorgensen, E. M. (2001). An open form of syntaxin bypasses the requirement for UNC-13 in vesicle priming. Nature, 412(6844), 338–341.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gavin, M. A., Rasmussen, J. P., Fontenot, J. D., Vasta, V., Manganiello, V. C., Beavo, J. A., & Rudensky, A. Y. (2007). Foxp3-dependent programme of regulatory T-cell differentiation. Nature, 445(7129), 771–775.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bitton, G. (2014). Microbiology of Drinking Water. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hashimi, S. Y. (2005). Pro Service-Oriented Smart Clients with .NET 2.0. (S. J. Steffan, Ed.). Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Cooper, M. C., El Mouelhi, A., Terrioux, C., & Zanuttini, B. (2014). On Broken Triangles. In B. O’Sullivan (Ed.), Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming: 20th International Conference, CP 2014, Lyon, France, September 8-12, 2014. Proceedings (pp. 9–24). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Fang, J. (2014, April 9). Existence of Exotic Hadron Confirmed. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2000). VA Information Technology: Progress Continues Although Vulnerabilities Remain (No. T-AIMD-00-321). 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

Culumber, J. J. (2017). Physician Practice Survival: The Role of Analytics in Shaping the Future (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Saslow, L. (2006, March 26). Chairman of Trustees Donates $6 Million. New York Times, p. 14LI7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nottebohm 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kepecs and Fishell 2014; Nottebohm 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kepecs and Fishell 2014)
Three or more authors: (Gavin et al. 2007)

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