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. Pollitz FF. Geophysics. A new class of earthquake observations. Science. 2006;313:619–20.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Philip N, Waters AP. Microbiology. Unveiling the malaria parasite’s cloak of invisibility? Science. 2013;340:936–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hsu A-L, Murphy CT, Kenyon C. Regulation of aging and age-related disease by DAF-16 and heat-shock factor. Science. 2003;300:1142–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hall DA, Zhu H, Zhu X, Royce T, Gerstein M, Snyder M. Regulation of gene expression by a metabolic enzyme. Science. 2004;306:482–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Levy D. Practical Diabetes Care. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Öchsner A, Shokuhfar A, editors. New Frontiers of Nanoparticles and Nanocomposite Materials: Novel Principles and Techniques. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gonçalves RC, Pereira J, Jiménez-Peris R. An RDMA Middleware for Asynchronous Multi-stage Shuffling in Analytical Processing. In: Jelasity M, Kalyvianaki E, editors. Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: 16th IFIP WG 61 International Conference, DAIS 2016, Held as Part of the 11th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2016, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 6-9, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 61–74.

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 E. Perfectly Pink Dolphin Looks Like Something From A Fairytale [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/magical-pink-dolphin/

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. Air Traffic Control: Status of FAA’s Plans to Close and Contract Out Low-Activity Towers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Sep. Report No.: RCED-94-265.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hylton JK. Scatter; Or, A Series or Minor Inconveniences [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2016.

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. Herrman J. Mayer’s Media Problem at Yahoo Is Now Verizon’s. New York Times. 2016 Jul 26;B1.

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

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