How to format your references using the Brain Research Bulletin citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brain Research Bulletin. 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

Walmsley, I.A., 2015. Quantum optics: science and technology in a new light. Science 348, 525–530.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pulendran, B., Artis, D., 2012. New paradigms in type 2 immunity. Science 337, 431–435.

A journal article with 3 authors

Letinic, K., Zoncu, R., Rakic, P., 2002. Origin of GABAergic neurons in the human neocortex. Nature 417, 645–649.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Black, B.E., Foltz, D.R., Chakravarthy, S., Luger, K., Woods, V.L., Jr, Cleveland, D.W., 2004. Structural determinants for generating centromeric chromatin. Nature 430, 578–582.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, 2014. Energy Materials 2014. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Yamanouchi, K., Becker, A., Li, R., Chin, S.L. (Eds.), 2009. Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science, Springer Series in Chemical Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Knoche, G., Kuhnhenn, K., Vollmer, C., Werner, K., 2014. The Need for Decarbonising Our Economy, in: Angrick, M., Burger, A., Lehmann, H. (Eds.), Factor X: Policy, Strategies and Instruments for a Sustainable Resource Use, Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 93–101.

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 Research Bulletin.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015. Sumatran Rhino Declared Extinct In The Wild In Malaysia [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sumatran-rhino-declared-extinct-wild-malaysia/ (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. EOS Data Policy: Questions Remain About U.S. Commercial Access (No. IMTEC-92-44). 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

Soma, V.M., 2016. A particle filter methodology for salient object detection in videos (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

Greenhouse, L., 2005. Court to Rule on What Constitutes Employer Retaliation. New York Times A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walmsley, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Pulendran and Artis, 2012; Walmsley, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Pulendran and Artis, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Black et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Brain Research Bulletin
Abbreviation	Brain Res. Bull.
ISSN (print)	0361-9230
Scope	General Neuroscience