How to format your references using the Brain, Behavior and Evolution citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brain, Behavior and Evolution (BBE). 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

Abbott A (2003): Neuroscience: genomics on the brainNature 426:757.

A journal article with 2 authors

Madin JS, Connolly SR (2006): Ecological consequences of major hydrodynamic disturbances on coral reefsNature 444:477–480.

A journal article with 3 authors

Willis KJ, Gillson L, Brncic TM (2004): Ecology. How “virgin” is virgin rainforest?Science 304:402–403.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Henry L-A, Vad J, Findlay HS, Murillo J, Milligan R, Roberts JM (2014): Environmental variability and biodiversity of megabenthos on the Hebrides Terrace Seamount (Northeast Atlantic)Sci Rep 4:5589.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moll W, Moll A (2011): Schallschutz im Wohnungsbau. Weinheim, Germany, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Dick E, Gaesing K, Inkoom D, Kausel T (eds.) (2016): Decentralisation and Regional Development: Experiences and Lessons from Four Continents over Three Decades. Cham, Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Procesi C (2009): The spirit of algebra; in Emmer M, Quarteroni A (eds): Mathknow: Mathematics, Applied Sciences and Real Life. Milano, Springer, pp 37–57.

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 Brain, Behavior and Evolution.

Blog post

Davis J (2015): Scientists Identify Genetic Difference Between Early Risers And Late Sleepers [Internet]IFLScience [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-identify-genetic-difference-between-early-risers-and-late-sleepers/

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 (1984): Participation in the National School Lunch Program. Washington, DC, 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

Senaga KA (2016): Tasteless, cheap, and southern? The rise and decline of the farm-raised catfish industry

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): Film SeriesNew York Times :C28.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Brain, Behavior and Evolution
Abbreviation	Brain Behav. Evol.
ISSN (print)	0006-8977
ISSN (online)	1421-9743
Scope	Behavioral Neuroscience Developmental Neuroscience