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

Templeton, A. (2002) Out of Africa again and again. Nature 416, 45–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lujambio, A. & Lowe, S.W. (2012) The microcosmos of cancer. Nature 482, 347–355.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ballester, G.E., Sing, D.K. & Herbert, F. (2007) The signature of hot hydrogen in the atmosphere of the extrasolar planet HD 209458b. Nature 445, 511–514.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pittermann, J., Sperry, J.S., Hacke, U.G., Wheeler, J.K. & Sikkema, E.H. (2005) Torus-margo pits help conifers compete with angiosperms. Science 310, 1924.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stirling, E. (2010) Valuing Older People. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Malkin, T. (ed). (2008) Topics in Cryptology – CT-RSA 2008: The Cryptographers’ Track at the RSA Conference 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 8-11, 2008. Proceedings. , Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Murthy, C.A., Saha, S. & Pal, S.K. (2011) Rough Set Based Ensemble Classifier. In Kuznetsov, S.O., Ślęzak, D., Hepting, D.H. & Mirkin, B.G. (eds), Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing: 13th International Conference, RSFDGrC 2011, Moscow, Russia, June 25-27, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 27–27.

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. (2017) Vaccinated Tasmanian Devils Experience Cancer Remission [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/vaccinated-tasmanian-devils-experience-cancer-remission/

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. (1996) Health and Safety: Environmental Oversight of Classified Federal Research ( No. T-RCED-96-99). 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

Kweider, N.M. (2014) Reading comprehension among Arabic Heritage Language Learners and the Simple View of Reading model. 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

Crow, K. (2003) Warm Feelings on Bleecker Street For a Rough-and-Tumble Life. New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Templeton 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Templeton 2002; Lujambio & Lowe 2012).

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

Two authors: (Lujambio & Lowe 2012)
Three or more authors: (Pittermann et al. 2005)

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