How to format your references using the Acta Neuropathologica citation style

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Gulledge J (2011) Debt crisis: Crunch time for US science. Nature 477:155–156
A journal article with 2 authors
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Yagi M, Oikawa S (2014) Ontogenetic phase shifts in metabolism in a flounder Paralichthys olivaceus. Sci Rep 4:7135
A journal article with 3 authors
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Serganov A, Huang L, Patel DJ (2009) Coenzyme recognition and gene regulation by a flavin mononucleotide riboswitch. Nature 458:233–237
A journal article with 4 or more authors
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Zimmerman C, Klein KC, Kiser PK, Singh AR, Firestein BL, Riba SC, Lingappa JR (2002) Identification of a host protein essential for assembly of immature HIV-1 capsids. Nature 415:88–92

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Rowlinson M (2010) A Practical Guide to the NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK
An edited book
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Civelli O, Zhou Q-Y (2008) Orphan G Protein-Coupled Receptors and Novel Neuropeptides. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
A chapter in an edited book
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Cornillon P-A, Hengartner N, Lefieux V, Matzner-Løber E (2015) Fully Nonparametric Short Term Forecasting Electricity Consumption. In: Antoniadis A, Poggi J-M, Brossat X (eds) Modeling and Stochastic Learning for Forecasting in High Dimensions. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 79–93

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 Neuropathologica.

Blog post
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Luntz S (2015) Bionic Leaf Uses Bacteria To Convert Sunlight Into Fuel. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/bionic-leaf-turns-carbon-dioxide-fuel/. 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
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Government Accountability Office (1994) Early Childhood Programs: Multiple Programs and Overlapping Target Groups. 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
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Stewart AM (2014) Estimation of urban-enhanced infiltration and groundwater recharge, Sierra Vista subbasin, southeast Arizona USA. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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
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Poniewozik J (2016) Sci-Fi Western on HBO? Yes, It’s Dark. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [2, 5, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal titleActa Neuropathologica
AbbreviationActa Neuropathol.
ISSN (print)0001-6322
ISSN (online)1432-0533
ScopeClinical Neurology
Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

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