How to format your references using the Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports. 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

1. Rosenbaum TF. A new spin on magnets. Nature. 2000;404:556–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lau H, Maniscalco B. Neuroscience. Should confidence be trusted? Science. 2010;329:1478–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chen GZ, Fray DJ, Farthing TW. Direct electrochemical reduction of titanium dioxide to titanium in molten calcium chloride. Nature. 2000;407:361–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Gascard J-C, Watson AJ, Messias M-J, Olsson KA, Johannessen T, Simonsen K. Long-lived vortices as a mode of deep ventilation in the Greenland Sea. Nature. 2002;416:525–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Held G. Bulletproofing TCP/IP-based Windows NT/2000 Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2001.

An edited book

1. He B, editor. Modeling and Imaging of Bioelectrical Activity: Principles and Applications. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Wang G, Zhang Q, Yan X. Observer-Based Feedback Stabilization. In: Zhang Q, Yan X, editors. Analysis and Design of Singular Markovian Jump Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 161–78.

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 Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports.

Blog post

1. Fang J. North Americans Were Salmon Fishing 11,500 Years Ago [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/north-americans-were-salmon-fishing-11500-years-ago/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Federal Communications Commission: Facilitate the Development and Use of the Universal Licensing System in the Wireless Telecommunications Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Dec. Report No.: OGC-99-25.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Johnson R. Grounding theatricality in reality: The creation of the role of Suzie in “Current Nobody” [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

1. Lundberg GD. The N.F.L.’s Collision With the Future. New York Times. 2016 Feb 4;A27.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Behav. Neurosci. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2196-2979
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