How to format your references using the Archives of Neurology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Neurology. 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

Sanderson K. US biofuels: a field in ferment. Nature. 2006;444(7120):673-676.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fox BA, Bzik DJ. De novo pyrimidine biosynthesis is required for virulence of Toxoplasma gondii. Nature. 2002;415(6874):926-929.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ge DZ, Sheng Y, Cai X. Combined staurosporine and retinoic acid induces differentiation in retinoic acid resistant acute promyelocytic leukemia cell lines. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4821.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gong Y, Cao P, Yu HJ, Jiang T. Crystal structure of the neurotrophin-3 and p75NTR symmetrical complex. Nature. 2008;454(7205):789-793.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Köhler M. Nanotechnologie. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Wehrtmann IS, Cortés J, eds. Marine Biodiversity of Costa Rica, Central America. Vol 86. Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Heredia RR, López BG, García O, Altamira WA, González PG. Bilingual Reading: The Visual Moving Window. In: Heredia RR, Altarriba J, Cieślicka AB, eds. Methods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension Research. Springer; 2016:99-121.

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 Archives of Neurology.

Blog post

Andrew E. The Oceans Are Becoming Too Hot For Coral, And Sooner Than We Expected. IFLScience. October 10, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/oceans-are-becoming-too-hot-coral-and-sooner-we-expected/

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. Aircraft Noise: Eight Airports’ Efforts to Mitigate Noise. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Reilly CA. Information and Communication Technology Use in the College Classroom: Adjunct Faculty Perspectives. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University; 2014.

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

Kishkovsky S. Russian Troops Seal Off Town In Search for Chechen Rebels. New York Times. January 6, 2002:13.

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	Archives of Neurology
Abbreviation	Arch. Neurol.
ISSN (print)	0003-9942
ISSN (online)	1538-3687
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Clinical Neurology