How to format your references using the Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. MacNeil S. Progress and opportunities for tissue-engineered skin. Nature. 2007;445:874–80.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Reisz RR, Sues HD. The “feathers” of Longisquama. Nature. 2000;408:428.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Song Y, Wang J, Yau S-T. Controlled glucose consumption in yeast using a transistor-like device. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5429.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Baudat F, Buard J, Grey C, Fledel-Alon A, Ober C, Przeworski M, et al. PRDM9 is a major determinant of meiotic recombination hotspots in humans and mice. Science. 2010;327:836–40.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Firth-Cozens J, Harrison J. How to Survive in Medicine. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

1. Stanković RS. From Boolean Logic to Switching Circuits and Automata: Towards Modern Information Technology. Astola J, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Babatunde Y, Low SP. Construction Industry in Nigeria. In: Low SP, editor. Cross-Cultural Management and Quality Performance: Chinese Construction Firms in Nigeria. Singapore: Springer; 2015. p. 45–57.

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 Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Watch A Diamond Burn In Pure Oxygen [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/watch-diamond-burn-pure-oxygen/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Trends in State Capital Investment in Highways, an E-supplement to GAO-03-744R. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Jun. Report No.: GAO-03-915SP.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Roettger ME. Three essays on social inequality and the U.S. criminal justice system [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2008.

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

1. Marx L. After the Guests Have Left. New York Times. 2014 Jun 1;ST13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Behav. Neurosci. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2196-2979
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