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

Basset, J.-M. (2015). Yves Chauvin (1930-2015). Nature, 519(7542), 159.

A journal article with 2 authors

Altshuler, D., & Clark, A. G. (2005). Genetics. Harvesting medical information from the human family tree. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5712), 1052–1053.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rowe, C., Harris, J. M., & Roberts, S. C. (2005). Sporting contests: seeing red? Putting sportswear in context. Nature, 437(7063), E10; discussion E10-1.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wu, Y., Qin, G., Gao, F., Liu, Y., Vavricka, C. J., Qi, J., et al. (2013). Induced opening of influenza virus neuraminidase N2 150-loop suggests an important role in inhibitor binding. Scientific reports, 3, 1551.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Peca, S. P. (2009). Real Estate Development and Investment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mizio, R. D., & Scaglione, M. (Eds.). (2007). Ileo meccanico dell’intestino tenue: Aspetti TC e correlazioni eco-radiografiche. Milano: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Larionova, M., & Shelepov, A. (2015). Is BRICS Institutionalization Enhancing Its Effectiveness? In M. Rewizorski (Ed.), The European Union and the BRICS: Complex Relations in the Era of Global Governance (pp. 39–55). 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

Hale, T. (2016, September 21). Sitting Infront Of A Light Box Every Morning Increases Male Sexual Satisfaction, Study Says. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sitting-infront-of-a-light-box-every-morning-increases-male-sexual-satisfaction-study-says/. 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. (1991). Weather Satellites: Action Needed to Resolve Status of the U.S. Geostationary Satellite Program (No. NSIAD-91-252). 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

Hatton, H. (2013). How Rural Elementary Building Principals Conceptualize the Programs in Their Schools, the Processes of Connecting Students to Programs, and Their Leadership Role in Doing So (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Yablonsky, L. (2010, October 17). Art and Action. New York Times, p. M242.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Basset 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Altshuler and Clark 2005; Basset 2015).

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

Two authors: (Altshuler and Clark 2005)
Three or more authors: (Wu et al. 2013)

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