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. Lazar MA. How obesity causes diabetes: not a tall tale. Science. 2005;307:373–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kim BH, Kwon JW. Plasmon-assisted radiolytic energy conversion in aqueous solutions. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5249.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Savill J, Gregory C, Haslett C. Cell biology. Eat me or die. Science. 2003;302:1516–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Fairclough DV, Brown JI, Carlish BJ, Crisafulli BM, Keay IS. Breathing life into fisheries stock assessments with citizen science. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7249.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cauvin C, Escobar F, Serradj A. Thematic Cartography and Transformations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. García Alcaraz JL. Just-in-Time Elements and Benefits. Macías AAM, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Banavar RN, Sankaranarayanan V. Switched Stabilization of a Hovercraft. In: Sankaranarayanan V, editor. Switched Finite Time Control of a Class of Underactuated Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 61–77.

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. Evans K. NASA’s $1 Billion Jupiter Probe Just Sent Back Breathtaking New Images Of The Gas Giant [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasas-1-billion-jupiter-probe-just-sent-back-breathtaking-new-images-of-the-gas-giant/

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. Airport Finance: Preliminary Analysis Indicates Proposed Changes in the Airport Improvement Program May Not Resolve Funding Needs for Smaller Airports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Mar. Report No.: GAO-07-617T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Wilbur LJ. Perceptions of Missouri Public School Early Childhood Teachers and Administrators in Regard to Technology and Current Practices [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2017.

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. Robbins L. Chemistry Lab Fire Injures 2 At a Manhattan High School. New York Times. 2014 Jan 3;A16.

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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