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

Stambolic, V., 2015. Cancer: Precise control of localized signals. Nature 522, 38–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Christensen, C.H., Nørskov, J.K., 2010. Chemistry. Green gold catalysis. Science 327, 278–279.

A journal article with 3 authors

Post, D.M., Pace, M.L., Hairston, N.G., Jr, 2000. Ecosystem size determines food-chain length in lakes. Nature 405, 1047–1049.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Khazipov, R., Sirota, A., Leinekugel, X., Holmes, G.L., Ben-Ari, Y., Buzsáki, G., 2004. Early motor activity drives spindle bursts in the developing somatosensory cortex. Nature 432, 758–761.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Singleton, T.W., Singleton, A.J., 2010. Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hinchey, M., Pagnoni, A., Rammig, F.J., Schmeck, H. (Eds.), 2008. Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing: IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Second IFIP TC 10 International Conference on Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing, September 8–9, 2008, Milano, Italy, IFIP – The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Conigliaro, R., Caruso, A., Frazzoni, M., 2014. Timing and Protocols of Endoscopic Follow-Up After Gastric Surgery, in: Galloro, G. (Ed.), Endoscopic Follow-up of Digestive Anastomosis. Springer, Milano, pp. 35–39.

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, E., 2015. Heroin Use and Overdose Deaths Rising in the U.S [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/heroin-use-and-overdose-deaths-rise-us/ (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, 2014. Advanced Reactor Research: DOE Supports Multiple Technologies, but Actions Needed to Ensure a Prototype Is Built (No. GAO-14-545). 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

Spralja, K.P., 2014. The intersections of culture and business: An ethnographic study of multicultural second generation young entrepreneurs (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

Vecsey, G., 2010. Induct Steinbrenner? Let’s Think About This. New York Times B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stambolic, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Christensen and Nørskov, 2010; Stambolic, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Christensen and Nørskov, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Khazipov et al., 2004)

About the journal

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