How to format your references using the Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Brugger P (2015) Animal behavior. Chicks with a number sense. Science 347(6221): 477–478.

A journal article with 2 authors

Greene MJ, Gordon DM (2003) Social insects: Cuticular hydrocarbons inform task decisions. Nature 423(6935): 32.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lunshof JE, Church GM, Prainsack B (2014) Information access. Raw personal data: providing access. Science 343(6169): 373–374.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Little W, Karatutlu A, Bolmatov D, Trachenko K, Sapelkin AV, Cibin G, Taylor R, Mosselmans F, Dent AJ, Mountjoy G (2014) Structural origin of light emission in germanium quantum dots. Sci Rep 4: 7372.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barbosa P, Berry DL, Kary CS (2014) Insect Histology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Gibbons P, Heintze H-J, editors (2015) The Humanitarian Challenge: 20 Years European Network on Humanitarian Action (NOHA). Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Pelcat M, Aridhi S, Piat J, Nezan J-F (2013) A System-Level Architecture Model. In: Physical Layer Multi-Core Prototyping: A Dataflow-Based Approach for LTE ENodeB (Aridhi S, Piat J, Nezan J-F, Eds.). Springer, London, p. 103–121.

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 Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/forensic-scientists-build-crude-3d-mugshots-dna/. Accessed October 30, 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

Government Accountability Office (1995) .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Iniguez D (2013) .

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

Eligon J, Nolan K (2016) New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brugger, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Greene and Gordon, 2003; Brugger, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Greene and Gordon, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Little et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis
ISSN (print)	0065-1400
ISSN (online)	1689-0035
Scope