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

Wadman M. 2005. Disappointment in slow-down for biomedical funding. Nature. 433(7026):559

A journal article with 2 authors

Pokrovski GS, Dubrovinsky LS. 2011. The S3- ion is stable in geological fluids at elevated temperatures and pressures. Science. 331(6020):1052–54

A journal article with 3 authors

Chalifoux WA, Reznik SK, Leighton JL. 2012. Direct and highly regioselective and enantioselective allylation of β-diketones. Nature. 487(7405):86–89

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dello Ioio R, Nakamura K, Moubayidin L, Perilli S, Taniguchi M, et al. 2008. A genetic framework for the control of cell division and differentiation in the root meristem. Science. 322(5906):1380–84

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barone S, Franco EL. 2012. Statistical and Managerial Techniques for Six Sigma Methodology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Bella SD. 2005. The Science of the Individual: Leibniz’s Ontology of Individual Substance, Vol. 6. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

A chapter in an edited book

Geman H. 2008. Stochastic Clock and Financial Markets. In Aspects of Mathematical Finance, ed. M Yor, pp. 37–52. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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

Hamilton K. 2014. Does My Voice Really Sound Like That? 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. 1990. FAA Procurement: Major Data-Processing Contract Should Not Be Awarded. IMTEC-90-38, 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

Chlarson-Varner G. 2010. Falls among older adults 65 years and older. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Vecsey G. 2010. Football Coaches Find Stress And Satisfaction. New York Times, Sep. 25, , p. D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wadman 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Pokrovski & Dubrovinsky 2011; Wadman 2005).

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

Two authors: (Pokrovski & Dubrovinsky 2011)
Three or more authors: (Dello Ioio et al. 2008)

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