How to format your references using the Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 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

de Lanerolle, P., 2005. Recruiters and academia. Top 10 tips for success in graduate school. Nature 433, 442.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lund, S.T., Bohlmann, J., 2006. The molecular basis for wine grape quality--a volatile subject. Science 311, 804–805.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, C.-W., Ka, S.-M., Chen, A., 2014. Robust image registration of biological microscopic images. Sci. Rep. 4, 6050.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Paukstelis, P.J., Chen, J.-H., Chase, E., Lambowitz, A.M., Golden, B.L., 2008. Structure of a tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase splicing factor bound to a group I intron RNA. Nature 451, 94–97.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ccps, 2017. Guidelines for Combustible Dust Hazard Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Jonker, W., Petković, M. (Eds.), 2011. Secure Data Management: 8th VLDB Workshop, SDM 2011, Seattle, WA, USA, September 2, 2011, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Love, J.C., Derrick, S.M., Wiersema, J.M., 2011. Long Bone Fractures, in: Derrick, S.M., Wiersema, J.M. (Eds.), Skeletal Atlas of Child Abuse. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 69–83.

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 Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. The Mountain From “Game of Thrones” Reveals What He Has To Eat To Maintain His Mass [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mountain-game-thrones-reveals-his-insane-diet/ (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, 1988. Highways: How State Agencies Adopt New Pavement Technologies (No. PEMD-88-19). 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

Turpie, K.R., 2012. Enhancement of a canopy reflectance model for understanding the specular and spectral effects of an aquatic background in an inundated tidal marsh (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Crow, K., 2001. Time for Recalling the Departed And Reuniting the Long-Lost Related. New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (de Lanerolle, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (de Lanerolle, 2005; Lund and Bohlmann, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Lund and Bohlmann, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Paukstelis et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Abbreviation	Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0149-7634
Scope	Behavioral Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology