How to format your references using the American Journal of Neuroradiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Neuroradiology (AJNR). 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	Download the output style file
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

Nataf HC. Seismology. Inner core takes another turn. Nature 2000;405:411–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

McCormick C, Ganem D. The kaposin B protein of KSHV activates the p38/MK2 pathway and stabilizes cytokine mRNAs. Science 2005;307:739–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

Micol-Ponce R, Aguilera V, Ponce MR. A genetic screen for suppressors of a hypomorphic allele of Arabidopsis ARGONAUTE1. Sci Rep 2014;4:5533.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stohr J, Samant MG, Luning J, et al. Liquid crystal alignment on carbonaceous surfaces with orientational order. Science 2001;292:2299–302.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yu J, Tao D. Modern Machine Learning Techniques and Their Applications in Cartoon Animation Research. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Janowicz K, Raubal M, Levashkin S, eds. GeoSpatial Semantics: Third International Conference, GeoS 2009, Mexico City, Mexico, December 3-4, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Ralston NVC, Azenkeng A, Raymond LJ. Mercury-Dependent Inhibition of Selenoenzymes and Mercury Toxicity. In: Ceccatelli S, Aschner M, eds. Methylmercury and Neurotoxicity. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2012:91–9.

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 American Journal of Neuroradiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Of Cats And Cliffs: The Ethical Dilemmas Of The Driverless Car. IFLScience 2015 Oct 30. [Epub ahead of print].

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. Transportation Infrastructure: Implementation of Funding Flexibility Under ISTEA and Use of Transportation Control Measures. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gonzalez HM. DiaBeaThis Healthcare Clinic Business Plan. 2017. [Epub ahead of print].

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

Hollander S. Leading by 21 Points, Lions Cannot Hold On. New York Times. October 13, 2002:84.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	American Journal of Neuroradiology
Abbreviation	AJNR Am. J. Neuroradiol.
ISSN (print)	0195-6108
ISSN (online)	1936-959X
Scope	Clinical Neurology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging