How to format your references using the Acta Neuropathologica Communications citation style

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

1. Urban KW. Studying atomic structures by aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy. Science. 2008;321:506–10.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Baron CL, Malhotra V. Role of diacylglycerol in PKD recruitment to the TGN and protein transport to the plasma membrane. Science. 2002;295:325–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Schroeder JI, Kwak JM, Allen GJ. Guard cell abscisic acid signalling and engineering drought hardiness in plants. Nature. 2001;410:327–30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sharma RP, Ogale SB, Zhang ZH, Liu JR, Chu WK, Veal B, et al. Phase transitions in the incoherent lattice fluctuations in YBa2Cu3O(7-delta). Nature. 2000;404:736–40.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bintliff J. The Complete Archaeology of Greece. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

1. Yarden A. Adapted Primary Literature: The Use of Authentic Scientific Texts in Secondary Schools. Norris SP, Phillips LM, editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Vaka SRK, Bommana MM, Desai D, Djordjevic J, Phuapradit W, Shah N. Excipients for Amorphous Solid Dispersions. In: Shah N, Sandhu H, Choi DS, Chokshi H, Malick AW, editors. Amorphous Solid Dispersions: Theory and Practice. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 123–61.

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 Communications.

Blog post

1. Andrew D. A Sixth Sense? How We Can Tell That Eyes Are Watching Us [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/a-sixth-sense-how-we-can-tell-that-eyes-are-watching-us/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Medical ADP Systems: Composite Health Care System Acquisition--Fair, Reasonable, Supported. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Mar. Report No.: IMTEC-88-26.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Zaghdoun E. Entre lettres et portraits: Madame Du Deffand, auteur? [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2009.

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

1. Kenigsberg B. Sea Dogs, G.I.s and Ballet Divas. New York Times. 2017 May 5;AR43.

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 Neuropathologica Communications
Abbreviation	Acta Neuropathol. Commun.
ISSN (online)	2051-5960
Scope