How to format your references using the AIMS Neuroscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIMS Neuroscience. 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

Money NP (2000) Fungal get-together. Nature 405: 751.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shao S, Hegde RS (2014) Cell Biology. Local synthesis and disposal. Science 346: 701–702.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sousa T, Marques GM, Domingos T (2009) Comment on ‘Energy uptake and allocation during ontogeny’. Science 325: 1206; author reply 1206.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fraser AG, Kamath RS, Zipperlen P, et al. (2000) Functional genomic analysis of C. elegans chromosome I by systematic RNA interference. Nature 408: 325–330.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Doerfler W (2007) Foreign DNA in Mammalian Systems, Weinheim, Germany, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Cole PH, Ranasinghe DC (Eds.) (2008) Networked RFID Systems and Lightweight Cryptography: Raising Barriers to Product Counterfeiting, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tassios TP (2009) Seismic Protection of Monuments, In: Tankut AT (Ed.), Earthquakes and Tsunamis: Civil Engineering Disaster Mitigation Activities Implementing Millennium Development Goals, Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 53–65.

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 AIMS Neuroscience.

Blog post

Andrew D (2015) IFLScience, Check Out This Gorilla’s Reaction To Seeing Other Gorillas On A Smartphone, 2015.

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 (1991) ADP Modernization: Half-Billion Dollar FmHA Effort Lacks Adequate Planning and Oversight, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kim H (2008) Linkages Between Career Development and Career Technical Education Outcomes Among High Schools in New Jersey.

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

Wagner J (2017) Big Setback For Wright; Season Ends For Cespedes. New York Times B9.

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	AIMS Neuroscience
ISSN (online)	2373-7972
Scope