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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Genes, Brain and Behavior. 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

Oldroyd, G.E.D. (2007) Plant science. Nodules and hormones. Science 315, 52–53.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marmottant, P. & Hilgenfeldt, S. (2003) Controlled vesicle deformation and lysis by single oscillating bubbles. Nature 423, 153–156.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gardner, T.S., Cantor, C.R. & Collins, J.J. (2000) Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli. Nature 403, 339–342.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hüttelmaier, S., Zenklusen, D., Lederer, M., Dictenberg, J., Lorenz, M., Meng, X., Bassell, G.J., Condeelis, J. & Singer, R.H. (2005) Spatial regulation of beta-actin translation by Src-dependent phosphorylation of ZBP1. Nature 438, 512–515.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alsop, A. (2013) Continuing Professional Development in Health and Social Care. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Puglisi, J. (ed). (2007) Structure and Biophysics – New Technologies for Current Challenges in Biology and Beyond. , NATO Science Series. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Fijak, M., Bhushan, S. & Meinhardt, A. (2009) The Immune Privilege of the Testis. In Krause, W.K.H. & Naz, R.K. (eds), Immune Infertility: The Impact of Immune Reactions on Human Infertility, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 69–77.

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 Genes, Brain and Behavior.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) What Is Insomnia And What Can You Do About It? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-insomnia-and-what-can-you-do-about-it/

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. (2007) Aviation Security: Risk, Experience, and Customer Concerns Drive Changes to Airline Passenger Screening Procedures, but Evaluation and Documentation of Proposed Changes Could Be Improved ( No. GAO-07-634). 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

Reilly, J.M. (2008) The role of public opinion in China’s Japan policy: 1997–2007. 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. (2016) The Facts About Abortion Rights. New York Times SR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Oldroyd 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Marmottant & Hilgenfeldt 2003; Oldroyd 2007).

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

Two authors: (Marmottant & Hilgenfeldt 2003)
Three or more authors: (Hüttelmaier et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Genes, Brain and Behavior
Abbreviation	Genes Brain Behav.
ISSN (print)	1601-1848
ISSN (online)	1601-183X
Scope	Genetics Behavioral Neuroscience Neurology