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

Basko, D., 2011. Applied physics. A photothermoelectric effect in graphene. Science 334, 610–611.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buss, J.A., Agapie, T., 2016. Four-electron deoxygenative reductive coupling of carbon monoxide at a single metal site. Nature 529, 72–75.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, X., Roberti, R., Blobel, G., 2015. Structure of an integral membrane sterol reductase from Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum. Nature 517, 104–107.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Borra, E.F., Seddiki, O., Angel, R., Eisenstein, D., Hickson, P., Seddon, K.R., Worden, S.P., 2007. Deposition of metal films on an ionic liquid as a basis for a lunar telescope. Nature 447, 979–981.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mattone, J., Vaidya, N., 2016. Cultural Transformations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Zopounidis, C., Pardalos, P.M. (Eds.), 2010. Handbook of Multicriteria Analysis, Applied Optimization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Scuderi, E., Parrinello, R.E., Izal, D., Perrucci, G.P., Fitzek, F.H.P., Palazzo, S., Molinaro, A., 2010. A Mobile Platform for Measurements in Dynamic Topology Wireless Networks, in: Giusto, D., Iera, A., Morabito, G., Atzori, L. (Eds.), The Internet of Things: 20th Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communications. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 49–57.

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

Andrew, D., 2016. This Largely Unknown Condition Puts One Million People In The Hospital Each Year [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sepsis-the-largely-unknown-condition-that-puts-one-million-people-in-the-hospital-each-year/ (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, 1988. Toward Equality: Education of the Deaf (No. 135760). 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

Trichon, M.C., 2010. Self-Help Conferences for People Who Stutter: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (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

Barnard, A., Kirkpatrick, D.D., 2017. 5 Arab Nations Put U.S. in Jam As They Move to Isolate Qatar. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Basko, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Basko, 2011; Buss and Agapie, 2016).

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

Two authors: (Buss and Agapie, 2016)
Three or more authors: (Borra et al., 2007)

About the journal

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