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

Shubin, N., 2012. Farish A. Jenkins Jr (1940-2012). Nature 492, 42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nishimura, M., Somerville, S., 2002. Plant biology. Resisting attack. Science 295, 2032–2033.

A journal article with 3 authors

Singh, P.K., Hopwood, J., Sonkusale, S., 2014. Metamaterials for remote generation of spatially controllable two dimensional array of microplasma. Sci. Rep. 4, 5964.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chang, T.-R., Lin, H., Jeng, H.-T., Bansil, A., 2014. Thickness dependence of spin polarization and electronic structure of ultra-thin films of MoS2 and related transition-metal dichalcogenides. Sci. Rep. 4, 6270.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lado, E.P., 2016. The Common Fisheries Policy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Spector, J.M., Ifenthaler, D., Sampson, D.G., Isaias, P. (Eds.), 2016. Competencies in Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership in the Digital Age: Papers from CELDA 2014. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Whittaker, D.J., 2009. Phylogeography of Kloss’s Gibbon (Hylobates Klossii) Populations and Implications for Conservation Planning in the Mentawai Islands, in: Whittaker, D., Lappan, S. (Eds.), The Gibbons: New Perspectives on Small Ape Socioecology and Population Biology. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 73–89.

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. Second Detection Heralds The Era Of Gravitational Wave Astronomy [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/second-detection-heralds-the-era-of-gravitational-wave-astronomy/ (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. Civil Agency Aircraft: Agencies’ Use of Certain Aircraft to Transport Passengers (No. GGD-88-92BR). 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

Hong, H.J., 2017. Acrolein Modification of Human Apolipoprotein A-I Impairs Binding to Phosphatidylglycerol and Lipopolysaccharide of Gram-Negative Bacteria (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Hollander, S., 2000. From Nothing, A Great Team Rises; Duluth Women’s Hockey Program Surges to Prominence in Its First Year. New York Times D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shubin, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Nishimura and Somerville, 2002; Shubin, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Nishimura and Somerville, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Chang et al., 2014)

About the journal

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