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:

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 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

Eggleston CM (2008) Geochemistry. Toward new uses for hematite. Science 320:184–185

A journal article with 2 authors

Fisher SE, Ridley M (2013) Evolution. Culture, genes, and the human revolution. Science 340:929–930

A journal article with 3 authors

Bertet C, Sulak L, Lecuit T (2004) Myosin-dependent junction remodelling controls planar cell intercalation and axis elongation. Nature 429:667–671

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jain A, Aravindan V, Jayaraman S, Kumar PS, Balasubramanian R, Ramakrishna S, Madhavi S, Srinivasan MP (2013) Activated carbons derived from coconut shells as high energy density cathode material for Li-ion capacitors. Sci Rep 3:3002

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burwick F (2015) Romanticism. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Vos PD, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, Schleifer K-H, Whitman WB (2009) Bergey’s Manual® of Systematic Bacteriology: Volume Three The Firmicutes, Second Edition. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Nikookar H, Prasad R (2009) Ultra Wide Band Wireless Channels. In: Prasad R (ed) Introduction to Ultra Wideband for Wireless Communications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 43–65

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

Fang J (2014) Females Rise in Baboon Ranks With Help From Moms and Sisters. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/females-rise-baboon-ranks-help-moms-and-sisters/. 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 (1985) Concerns Over Labor’s Ability To Implement the Job Training Partnership Act. 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

Ramirez C (2014) Perceived efficacy of the O*NET Skills Search Tool among individuals with high functioning autism. 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

Billard M (2010) Analyzing the Markets. New York Times E5

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 [4–6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Neuropathologica
Abbreviation	Acta Neuropathol.
ISSN (print)	0001-6322
ISSN (online)	1432-0533
Scope	Clinical Neurology Pathology and Forensic Medicine Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

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