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. Gingeras TR. Implications of chimaeric non-co-linear transcripts. Nature. 2009;461:206–11.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lee AL, Wand AJ. Microscopic origins of entropy, heat capacity and the glass transition in proteins. Nature. 2001;411:501–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bolmatov D, Musaev ET, Trachenko K. Symmetry breaking gives rise to energy spectra of three states of matter. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2794.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Saleska SR, Didan K, Huete AR, da Rocha HR. Amazon forests green-up during 2005 drought. Science. 2007;318:612.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Implementing Process Safety Management Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1994.

An edited book

1. Nunnally BK, Turula VE, Sitrin RD, editors. Vaccine Analysis: Strategies, Principles, and Control. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Penzenstadler B, Koss D. High Confidence Subsystem Modelling for Reuse. In: Mei H, editor. High Confidence Software Reuse in Large Systems: 10th International Conference on Software Reuse, ICSR 2008, Beijing, China, May 25-29, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 52–63.

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. Hale T. Russia Is Using An Ingenious Method To Stop People Abusing Disabled Parking Spots [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/ingenius-method-russia-using-stop-people-abusing-disabled-parking-spots/

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. Analysis of Travel Activities of Certain Regulatory Agency Commissioners During 1971-75. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976 Oct. Report No.: CED-76-155.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Tovar L. Perceived life satisfaction of previously undocumented Latino immigrants [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. St. John Kelly E. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times. 1995 Jan 8;139.

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
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