How to format your references using the Journal of Veterinary Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Veterinary 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	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

Heilbron, J.L., 2005. Wit and wisdom. Nature 438, 29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Matzke, M.A., Matzke, A.J., 2000. Cloning problems don’t surprise plant biologists. Science 288, 2318b.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cai, L., Friedman, N., Xie, X.S., 2006. Stochastic protein expression in individual cells at the single molecule level. Nature 440, 358–362.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bansal, D., Miyake, K., Vogel, S.S., Groh, S., Chen, C.-C., Williamson, R., McNeil, P.L., Campbell, K.P., 2003. Defective membrane repair in dysferlin-deficient muscular dystrophy. Nature 423, 168–172.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kukushkin, A., 2004. Radio Wave Propagation in the Marine Boundary Layer. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Kotthoff, H.-G., Klerides, E. (Eds.), 2015. Governing Educational Spaces: Knowledge, Teaching, and Learning in Transition, CESE. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Becucci, S., 2008. New Players in an Old Game: The Sex Market in Italy, in: Siegel, D., Nelen, H. (Eds.), Organized Crime: Culture, Markets and Policies, Studies in Organized Crime. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 57–69.

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 Journal of Veterinary Behavior.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. No, Sunscreen Will Not Give You Cancer [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/no-sunscreen-will-not-give-you-cancer/ (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, 1977. The National Direct Student Loan Program Requires More Attention by the Office of Education and Participating Institutions (No. HRD-77-109). 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

Tian, C.Y., 2010. Studies of equilibrium conditions in housing markets (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

Vecsey, G., 2013. They Left Their Hearts at Coogan’s Bluff. New York Times D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heilbron, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Heilbron, 2005; Matzke and Matzke, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Matzke and Matzke, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Bansal et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Veterinary Behavior
Abbreviation	J. Vet. Behav.
ISSN (print)	1558-7878
Scope	General Veterinary