How to format your references using the Hormones and Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hormones 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

O’shea, T.J., 2000. PCBs Not to Blame. Science 288, 1965d–6d.

A journal article with 2 authors

Glass, K., Girvan, M., 2014. Annotation enrichment analysis: an alternative method for evaluating the functional properties of gene sets. Sci. Rep. 4, 4191.

A journal article with 3 authors

Venkatesan, M., Fitzgerald, C.B., Coey, J.M.D., 2004. Thin films: unexpected magnetism in a dielectric oxide. Nature 430, 630.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vasileiadis, T., Dracopoulos, V., Kollia, M., Yannopoulos, S.N., 2013. Laser-assisted growth of t-Te nanotubes and their controlled photo-induced unzipping to ultrathin core-Te/sheath-TeO(2) nanowires. Sci. Rep. 3, 1209.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hong, G., 2015. Causality in a Social World. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Decreusefond, L., Najim, J. (Eds.), 2012. Stochastic Analysis and Related Topics: In Honour of Ali Süleyman Üstünel, Paris, June 2010, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

van Breda, W., Pastor, J., Hoogendoorn, M., Ruwaard, J., Asselbergs, J., Riper, H., 2016. Exploring and Comparing Machine Learning Approaches for Predicting Mood Over Time, in: Chen, Y.-W., Tanaka, S., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (Eds.), Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2016, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 37–47.

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 Hormones and Behavior.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2017. Why Losing A Dog Can Be Harder Than Losing A Relative Or Friend [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2003. Transportation Security: Federal Action Needed to Enhance Security Efforts (No. GAO-03-1154T). 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

Makovec, M.G., 2008. A study of the factors predicting attrition and contributing to the attrition rate of high school teachers in Hampton Roads, Virginia (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

McKINLEY, J., Fitzsimmons, E.G., 2015. Ride-Sharing Apps See Potential Upstate. New York Times A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (O’shea, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Glass and Girvan, 2014; O’shea, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Glass and Girvan, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Vasileiadis et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Hormones and Behavior
Abbreviation	Horm. Behav.
ISSN (print)	0018-506X
Scope	Endocrinology Behavioral Neuroscience Endocrine and Autonomic Systems