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

Caplan A. 2004. Bioethics. Is biomedical research too dangerous to pursue? Science. 303(5661):1142

A journal article with 2 authors

Forte AM, Mitrovica JX. 2001. Deep-mantle high-viscosity flow and thermochemical structure inferred from seismic and geodynamic data. Nature. 410(6832):1049–56

A journal article with 3 authors

Bunge J, Epstein SS, Peterson DG. 2006. Comment on “Computational improvements reveal great bacterial diversity and high metal toxicity in soil.” Science. 313(5789):918; author reply 918

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rosas-Ballina M, Olofsson PS, Ochani M, Valdés-Ferrer SI, Levine YA, et al. 2011. Acetylcholine-synthesizing T cells relay neural signals in a vagus nerve circuit. Science. 334(6052):98–101

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Elliott CH, Smith LL. 2010. Overcoming Anxiety for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Schmidt A, Weber O, Wolff MH, eds. 2005. Coronaviruses with Special Emphasis on First Insights Concerning SARS. Basel: Birkhäuser

A chapter in an edited book

Park J-K, Kim MK. 2014. Teaching and Learning of EIL in Korean Culture and Context. In The Pedagogy of English as an International Language: Perspectives from Scholars, Teachers, and Students, eds. R Marlina, RA Giri, pp. 47–61. Cham: Springer International Publishing

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

Andrew E. 2016. How’s Your Walnut, Mate? Why Men Don’t Like To Talk About Their Enlarged Prostate. 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. 2009. Aviation Weather: FAA and the National Weather Service Are Considering Plans to Consolidate Weather Service Offices, But Face Significant Challenges. GAO-09-887T, 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

Abraham SR. 2015. Using Self-Monitoring and Goal Setting to Increase Swimming in Adults. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of South Florida

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. Back of Rotation Helps Mets Get First Exhibition Win. New York Times, Feb. 25, , p. D2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Caplan 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Caplan 2004; Forte & Mitrovica 2001).

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

Two authors: (Forte & Mitrovica 2001)
Three or more authors: (Rosas-Ballina et al. 2011)

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