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

Cohen, J.E., 2008. Make secondary education universal. Nature 456, 572–573.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sun, Z.-W., Allis, C.D., 2002. Ubiquitination of histone H2B regulates H3 methylation and gene silencing in yeast. Nature 418, 104–108.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schenk, P., Matsuyama, I., Nimmo, F., 2008. True polar wander on Europa from global-scale small-circle depressions. Nature 453, 368–371.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Madhusudhan, N., Harrington, J., Stevenson, K.B., Nymeyer, S., Campo, C.J., Wheatley, P.J., Deming, D., Blecic, J., Hardy, R.A., Lust, N.B., Anderson, D.R., Collier-Cameron, A., Britt, C.B.T., Bowman, W.C., Hebb, L., Hellier, C., Maxted, P.F.L., Pollacco, D., West, R.G., 2011. A high C/O ratio and weak thermal inversion in the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-12b. Nature 469, 64–67.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scanlan, E.A., 2009. Fundraising Consultants. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

El Naqa, I., Li, R., Murphy, M.J. (Eds.), 2015. Machine Learning in Radiation Oncology: Theory and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Beheshti, S.-M.-R., Benatallah, B., Sakr, S., Grigori, D., Motahari-Nezhad, H.R., Barukh, M.C., Gater, A., Ryu, S.H., 2016. Business Process Data Analysis, in: Benatallah, B., Sakr, S., Grigori, D., Motahari-Nezhad, H.R., Barukh, M.C., Gater, A., Ryu, S.H. (Eds.), Process Analytics: Concepts and Techniques for Querying and Analyzing Process Data. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 107–134.

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

Andrews, R., 2017. Does This Shape Look More “Bouba” Or “Kiki” To You? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/shape-look-bouba-kiki/ (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, 2015. Information Technology: FDA Has Taken Steps to Address Challenges but Needs a Comprehensive Strategic Plan (No. GAO-16-182). 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

Armstrong-Romero, K.A., 2017. Cultural influences and the impact of workplace bullying (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. You’re Killing Me Susana. New York Times C13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cohen, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Cohen, 2008; Sun and Allis, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Sun and Allis, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Madhusudhan et al., 2011)

About the journal

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