How to format your references using the Genes, Brain and Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Genes, Brain and Behavior. 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

Bianchi, D.W. (2015) Pregnancy: Prepare for unexpected prenatal test results. Nature 522, 29–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore, M.J. & Rosbash, M. (2001) Cell biology. TAPping into mRNA export. Science 294, 1841–1842.

A journal article with 3 authors

Inoue, M., Tanimoto, M. & Oda, Y. (2013) The role of ear stone size in hair cell acoustic sensory transduction. Sci Rep 3, 2114.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xu, Z.A., Ong, N.P., Wang, Y., Kakeshita, T. & Uchida, S. (2000) Vortex-like excitations and the onset of superconducting phase fluctuation in underdoped La(2-x)Sr(x)CuO4. Nature 406, 486–488.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Godwin, W. (2013) International Construction Contracts. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford.

An edited book

Chang, C.-H. & Potkonjak, M. (eds). (2016) Secure System Design and Trustable Computing. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Kainen, P.C. & Kůrková, V. (2008) Estimates of Network Complexity and Integral Representations. In Kůrková, V., Neruda, R. & Koutník, J. (eds), Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2008: 18th International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, September 3-6, 2008, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 31–40.

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 Genes, Brain and Behavior.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016) Premenstrual Symptoms Linked To Inflamation [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/premenstrual-symptoms-linked-to-inflamation/

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. (2017) Airport Funding: FAA’s and Industry’s Cost Estimates for Airport Development ( No. GAO-17-504T). 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

Fadamin, A. (2017) Synthesis, Characterization and Electrochemistry of the Ruthenium Schiff Base Complex [(Saloph)Ru(NO)Cl]. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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. (2009) Fame on the Half Shell. New York Times CY1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bianchi 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Moore & Rosbash 2001; Bianchi 2015).

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

Two authors: (Moore & Rosbash 2001)
Three or more authors: (Xu et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Genes, Brain and Behavior
Abbreviation	Genes Brain Behav.
ISSN (print)	1601-1848
ISSN (online)	1601-183X
Scope	Genetics Behavioral Neuroscience Neurology