How to format your references using the Journal of Veterinary Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Veterinary 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	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

Amelino-Camelia, G., 2007. Theoretical physics: walk the Planck. Nature 448, 257.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wehr, M., Zador, A.M., 2003. Balanced inhibition underlies tuning and sharpens spike timing in auditory cortex. Nature 426, 442–446.

A journal article with 3 authors

Krishnamurthy, H., Piscitelli, C.L., Gouaux, E., 2009. Unlocking the molecular secrets of sodium-coupled transporters. Nature 459, 347–355.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kimura, T., Goto, T., Shintani, H., Ishizaka, K., Arima, T., Tokura, Y., 2003. Magnetic control of ferroelectric polarization. Nature 426, 55–58.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Niemi, V., Nyberg, K., 2006. Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Security. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Bonato, V., Bouganis, C., Gorgon, M. (Eds.), 2016. Applied Reconfigurable Computing: 12th International Symposium, ARC 2016 Mangaratiba, RJ, Brazil, March 22–24, 2016 Proceedings, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Cheung, J., 2008. The Arts-in-Education Programme, in: Joubert, L. (Ed.), Educating in the Arts: The Asian Experience: Twenty-Four Essays. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 65–81.

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 Journal of Veterinary Behavior.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. Neanderthal Genes May Not Actually Be That Harmful To Humans [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/neanderthal-genes-may-not-actually-harmful-humans/ (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, 2001. Student Discipline: Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (No. GAO-01-210). 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

Bremond, D.S., 2017. When women win: Prominent leadership traits that contributed to the successful election of women in California (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Tabarrok, A., Rajagopalan, S., 2015. Private Cities, Open to All. New York Times A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Amelino-Camelia, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Amelino-Camelia, 2007; Wehr and Zador, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Wehr and Zador, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Kimura et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Abbreviation	J. Vet. Behav.
ISSN (print)	1558-7878
Scope	General Veterinary