How to format your references using the Hormones and Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hormones 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

Zimmerman, P.D., 2011. Science since 9/11: Homeland insecurity. Nature 477, 153–154.

A journal article with 2 authors

Faccio, D., Leach, J., 2013. Applied physics. Ghost imaging in three dimensions. Science 340, 821–822.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bettencourt, L.M.A., Samaniego, H., Youn, H., 2014. Professional diversity and the productivity of cities. Sci. Rep. 4, 5393.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sunshine, J.M., Connolly, H.C., Jr, McCoy, T.J., Bus, S.J., La Croix, L.M., 2008. Ancient asteroids enriched in refractory inclusions. Science 320, 514–517.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kramer-Moore, D., Moore, M., 2012. Destructive Myths in Family Therapy. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Mattheou, D. (Ed.), 2010. Changing Educational Landscapes: Educational Policies, Schooling Systems and Higher Education - a comparative perspective. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Patterson, C., 2015. The Role of Surgery in Pulmonary Hypertension, in: Madden, B. (Ed.), Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 147–170.

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 Hormones and Behavior.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2017. Crowds Get Wiser When They Talk To Each Other [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/crowds-get-wiser-when-they-talk-to-each-other/ (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, 2005. Internet Protocol Version 6: Federal Agencies Need to Plan for Transition and Manage Security Risks (No. GAO-05-845T). 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

Manners, A.T., 2008. Influence of transformational, autocratic, democratic, and laissez -faire leadership principles on the effectiveness of religious leaders (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Vecsey, G., 2016. As a Butterfly or as a Bee, Ali Made an Impression. New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zimmerman, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Faccio and Leach, 2013; Zimmerman, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Faccio and Leach, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Sunshine et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Hormones and Behavior
Abbreviation	Horm. Behav.
ISSN (print)	0018-506X
Scope	Endocrinology Behavioral Neuroscience Endocrine and Autonomic Systems