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

Kreeger, K., 2002. Private foundations push for higher postdoc salaries. Nature 415, 5.

A journal article with 2 authors

McPherson, M.S., Schapiro, M.O., 2003. Education. Funding roller coaster for public higher education. Science 302, 1157.

A journal article with 3 authors

Conard, N.J., Grootes, P.M., Smith, F.H., 2004. Unexpectedly recent dates for human remains from Vogelherd. Nature 430, 198–201.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Raviv, U., Giasson, S., Kampf, N., Gohy, J.-F., Jérôme, R., Klein, J., 2003. Lubrication by charged polymers. Nature 425, 163–165.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lemaire, M., 2014. Mechanics and Uncertainty. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Makhlouf, A., Paal, E., Silvestrov, S.D., Stolin, A. (Eds.), 2014. Algebra, Geometry and Mathematical Physics: AGMP, Mulhouse, France, October 2011, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Naitoh, T., 2014. Basic Techniques and Instruments, in: Choi, S.H., Kasama, K. (Eds.), Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 29–35.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. NASA Hubble Telescope Sees A Storm In Lagoon Nebula [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. Mass Transit Grants: If Properly Implemented, FTA Initiatives Should Improve Oversight (No. RCED-93-8). 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

Knight, M., 2012. Technological Advancement in Conflict Assessment: A Case Study of the Fund for Peace’s Universal Network of Local Knowledge in Liberia (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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. Rights of Unions and Nonmembers Vie at Court. New York Times A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kreeger, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Kreeger, 2002; McPherson and Schapiro, 2003).

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

Two authors: (McPherson and Schapiro, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Raviv 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

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