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. Baselga J. Targeting tyrosine kinases in cancer: the second wave. Science. 2006;312:1175–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Shi F, Lemmon MA. Biochemistry. KSR plays CRAF-ty. Science. 2011;332:1043–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kainulainen J, Federrath C, Henning T. Unfolding the laws of star formation: the density distribution of molecular clouds. Science. 2014;344:183–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Rauhut OWM, Martin T, Ortiz-Jaureguizar E, Puerta P. A Jurassic mammal from South America. Nature. 2002;416:165–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Imrie R, Street E. Architectural Design and Regulation. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Devetak I, Glažar SA, editors. Learning with Understanding in the Chemistry Classroom. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Dabelea D. Maternal-Fetal Contributors to the Insulin Resistance Syndrome in Youth. In: Zeitler PS, Nadeau KJ, editors. Insulin Resistance: Childhood Precursors and Adult Disease. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2009. p. 65–80.

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. Davis J. The Great Barrier Reef Suffered Far Worse Bleaching Than Originally Thought [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-great-barrier-reef-suffered-far-worse-bleaching-than-originally-thought/

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. Direct Student Loan Savings. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Jul. Report No.: HRD-93-25R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Zanulabe Din MO. Engineered Synchrony of Bacterial Lysis and its Applications [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 2017.

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. Dudziak ML. The Global March on Washington. New York Times. 2013 Aug 28;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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