How to format your references using the Annual Review of Neuroscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of 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	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

Kemp M. 2001. The harmonious hand. Marin Mersenne and the science of memorized music. Nature. 409(6821):666

A journal article with 2 authors

Scott GR, Gibert L. 2009. The oldest hand-axes in Europe. Nature. 461(7260):82–85

A journal article with 3 authors

Sugrue LP, Corrado GS, Newsome WT. 2004. Matching behavior and the representation of value in the parietal cortex. Science. 304(5678):1782–87

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhao X, Xiao B, Fletcher AJ, Thomas KM, Bradshaw D, Rosseinsky MJ. 2004. Hysteretic adsorption and desorption of hydrogen by nanoporous metal-organic frameworks. Science. 306(5698):1012–15

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Etheridge D. 2010. Excel® Data Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Omodeo EG, Policriti A, eds. 2016. Martin Davis on Computability, Computational Logic, and Mathematical Foundations, Vol. 10. Cham: Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Sakao T, Kaneko K, Masui K, Tsubaki H. 2008. Combinatorial Usage of QFDE and LCA for Environmentally Conscious Design. In The Grammar of Technology Development, eds. H Tsubaki, S Yamada, K Nishina, pp. 45–59. Tokyo: Springer Japan

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 Annual Review of Neuroscience.

Blog post

Fang J. 2014. Early Exposure To Pets, Dirt & Germs Are Good For Babies. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. Within-School Discrimination: Inadequate Title VI Enforcement by Education’s Office for Civil Rights. T-HRD-91-17, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wilday D. 2014. Soulmaking within the destructive side of God seeing through monotheism’s holy warrior 9/11 to prehistory. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

de la MERCED MJ. 2017. Sinclair Said to Be Near Deal for Tribune Media. New York Times, May 7, , p. B2

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kemp 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Kemp 2001; Scott & Gibert 2009).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Scott & Gibert 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	0147-006X
ISSN (online)	1545-4126
Scope	General Neuroscience