How to format your references using the Acta Neurologica Belgica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Neurologica Belgica. 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

O’Reilly T (2011) Steve Jobs (1955-2011). Nature 479:42

A journal article with 2 authors

Lin CD, Chu W-C (2013) Physics. Controlling atomic line shapes. Science 340:694–695

A journal article with 3 authors

Tylianakis JM, Tscharntke T, Lewis OT (2007) Habitat modification alters the structure of tropical host-parasitoid food webs. Nature 445:202–205

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dehlinger G, Diehl L, Gennser U, et al (2000) Intersubband electroluminescence from silicon-based quantum cascade structures. Science 290:2277–2280

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Seagal ZM, Surnina OM (2016) Ultrasonic Topographical and Pathotopographical Anatomy. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Maricau E (2013) Analog IC Reliability in Nanometer CMOS. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Abu-Affash AK, Carmi P, Katz MJ, Trabelsi Y (2012) Bottleneck Non-crossing Matching in the Plane. In: Epstein L, Ferragina P (eds) Algorithms – ESA 2012: 20th Annual European Symposium, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 10-12, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 36–47

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 Neurologica Belgica.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2017) What’s Going On At Fukushima? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/whats-going-on-at-fukushima/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1992) FAA Budget: Key Issues Need to Be Addressed. 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

Naik M (2017) Automating the process of antibiotic susceptibility testing. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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 (2002) Safe, for Now. New York Times 141

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Neurologica Belgica
Abbreviation	Acta Neurol. Belg.
ISSN (print)	0300-9009
ISSN (online)	2240-2993
Scope	General Medicine Clinical Neurology