How to format your references using the Brain Research Bulletin citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brain Research Bulletin. 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

Hoyt, M.A., 2006. Cell biology. Extinguishing a cell cycle checkpoint. Science 313, 624–625.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoerling, M., Kumar, A., 2003. The perfect ocean for drought. Science 299, 691–694.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sparks, R.S.J., Biggs, J., Neuberg, J.W., 2012. Geophysics. Monitoring volcanoes. Science 335, 1310–1311.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Arenz, A., Silver, R.A., Schaefer, A.T., Margrie, T.W., 2008. The contribution of single synapses to sensory representation in vivo. Science 321, 977–980.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwedt, G., 2009. Chemie und Literatur - ein ungewöhnlicher Flirt. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Idowu, S.O., Filho, W.L. (Eds.), 2009. Global Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Brisson, J.A., Davis, G.K., 2008. Pea Aphid, in: Kole, C. (Ed.), Genome Mapping and Genomics in Arthropods, Genome Mapping Genomics Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 59–67.

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 Research Bulletin.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. Watch A Man Play Guitar While Surgeons Remove Tumor From His Brain [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/man-plays-guitar-while-surgeons-remove-tumors-his-brain/ (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, 2003. Highway Safety: Better Guidance Could Improve Oversight of State Highway Safety Programs (No. GAO-03-474). 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

DeClerk, C.C., 2008. The relationship between retail store manager leadership styles and employee generational cohort, performance, and satisfaction (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Pilon, M., 2012. I.O.C. Rejects ’72 Remembrance. New York Times B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoyt, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Hoerling and Kumar, 2003; Hoyt, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Hoerling and Kumar, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Arenz et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Brain Research Bulletin
Abbreviation	Brain Res. Bull.
ISSN (print)	0361-9230
Scope	General Neuroscience