How to format your references using the Biological Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biological Psychology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Marais, R. (2015). RETROSPECTIVE. Christopher Marshall (1949-2015). Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6264), 1040.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taylor, M. S., & Hellberg, M. E. (2003). Genetic evidence for local retention of pelagic larvae in a Caribbean reef fish. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5603), 107–109.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, J. Y., Engelman, J. A., & Cantley, L. C. (2007). Biochemistry. PI3K charges ahead. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5835), 206–207.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Tateishi, K., Okada, Y., Kallin, E. M., & Zhang, Y. (2009). Role of Jhdm2a in regulating metabolic gene expression and obesity resistance. Nature, 458(7239), 757–761.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Miller, M. A. (2005). Internet Technologies Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Davis, J., & Ramon, J. (Eds.). (2015). Inductive Logic Programming: 24th International Conference, ILP 2014, Nancy, France, September 14-16, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 9046). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Treschev, D., & Zubelevich, O. (2010). Width of the Stochastic Layer. In O. Zubelevich (Ed.), Introduction to the Perturbation Theory of Hamiltonian Systems (pp. 93–106). Springer.

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 Biological Psychology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, November 14). Massive Stars Form Just like Smaller Stars, But With Extra Bangs. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/massive-stars-form-just-like-smaller-stars-but-with-extra-bangs/

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. (2004). Federal Aviation Administration: Challenges for Transforming Into a High-Performing Organization (GAO-04-770T). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ochse, A. R. (2013). Targeted Killing, Drones and International Law: How U.S. Practice is Shaping International Law [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Gordon, M. R. (2017, June 20). U.S. Fighter Downs Drone Over Syria. New York Times, A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marais, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Marais, 2015; Taylor & Hellberg, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Taylor & Hellberg, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Tateishi et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biological Psychology
Abbreviation	Biol. Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0301-0511
Scope	General Neuroscience Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology