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

Winklhofer, M., 2012. Physiology. An avian magnetometer. Science 336, 991–992.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scott, S.H., Crevecoeur, F., 2014. Neuroscience: Feedback throttled down for smooth moves. Nature 509, 38–39.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kent, A., Massar, S., Silman, J., 2014. Secure and robust transmission and verification of unknown quantum states in Minkowski space. Sci. Rep. 4, 3901.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Savic, R., Luo, L., Eisenberg, A., Maysinger, D., 2003. Micellar nanocontainers distribute to defined cytoplasmic organelles. Science 300, 615–618.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rochange, C., Uhrig, S., Sainrat, P., 2013. Time-Predictable Architectures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Dannen, C., 2011. Beginning iOS Apps with Facebook and Twitter APIs: For iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Chua, B.B., Bernardo, D.V., Verner, J., 2008. Criteria for Estimating Effort for Requirements Changes, in: O’Connor, R.V., Baddoo, N., Smolander, K., Messnarz, R. (Eds.), Software Process Improvement: 15th European Conference, EuroSPI 2008, Dublin, Ireland, September 3-5, 2008. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 36–46.

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

Fang, J., 2015. Humans Continue To Evolve, Despite Lower Mortality and Fertility Rates [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, 1992. Railroad Safety: Accident Trends and FRA Safety Programs (No. T-RCED-92-23). 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

Altiparmak, F., 2008. Online Management and Mining of Heteregenous and Dynamic Time Series (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2007. Chief Justice Is Admitted To Hospital After Seizure. New York Times A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Winklhofer, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Scott and Crevecoeur, 2014; Winklhofer, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Scott and Crevecoeur, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Savic et al., 2003)

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