How to format your references using the Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 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

Borniger, J.C., 2015. Leaping into the unknown. Science 350, 882.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wheeler, M.M., Robinson, G.E., 2014. Diet-dependent gene expression in honey bees: honey vs. sucrose or high fructose corn syrup. Sci. Rep. 4, 5726.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ogata, H., Nishikawa, K., Lubitz, W., 2015. Hydrogens detected by subatomic resolution protein crystallography in a [NiFe] hydrogenase. Nature 520, 571–574.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Roussos, E., Kollmann, P., Krupp, N., Kotova, A., Regoli, L., Paranicas, C., Mitchell, D.G., Krimigis, S.M., Hamilton, D., Brandt, P., Carbary, J., Christon, S., Dialynas, K., Dandouras, I., Hill, M.E., Ip, W.H., Jones, G.H., Livi, S., Mauk, B.H., Palmaerts, B., Roelof, E.C., Rymer, A., Sergis, N., Smith, H.T., 2018. A radiation belt of energetic protons located between Saturn and its rings. Science 362.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schepers, U., 2004. RNA Interference in Practice. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Kryszkiewicz, M., Peters, J.F., Rybinski, H., Skowron, A. (Eds.), 2007. Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems Paradigms: International Conference, RSEISP 2007, Warsaw, Poland, June 28-30, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Schillinger, N., 2012. Survey the People, in: Flüchter, A., Richter, S. (Eds.), Structures on the Move: Technologies of Governance in Transcultural Encounter, Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 87–103.

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 Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2016. Are We Alone? Life On Earth May Have Formed Prematurely [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/are-we-alone-life-on-earth-may-have-formed-prematurely/ (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, 1989. Highway Contracts: Federal-Aid Highway Contracts Awarded to Minority- and Women-Owned Businesses (No. RCED-89-78). 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

Meissner, R., 2009. Analyzing inpatient hospital costs by payer: What do they mean for the future of health care in America? (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

Dorman, J.L., 2017. Crossing the River From ‘Midnight’ to Freedom. New York Times TR4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Borniger, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Borniger, 2015; Wheeler and Robinson, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wheeler and Robinson, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Roussos et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Abbreviation	Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0149-7634
Scope	Behavioral Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology